Publications - The Office of Minority Health

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	National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) Resources on Children and Adolescents Children with diabetes and their families, health care providers, and school personnel face unique challenges when dealing with diabetes. Learn more about type 1 and type 2 diabetes in young people and how to help them manage the disease and ensure their health and well-being.
	Be Smart About Your Heart: Control the ABCs of Diabetes NDEP and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) have developed a new brochure for people with diabetes that provides essential information along with a wallet card to help them track their ABC numbers. To get the new brochure and the free wallet card and to learn more about diabetes, call 1-800-438-5383.
	The Power to Control Diabetes is in Your Hands This easy-to-read, 12-page brochure provides information for Medicare beneficiaries who have diabetes. The brochure focuses on the importance of self-monitoring blood sugar levels and explains the Medicare benefits that help pay for diabetes equipment and supplies.
	GAME PLAN Food and Activity Tracker This printer-ready diary enables diabetes sufferers to monitor and record food and drink intake and physical activity, an important component of a successful weight loss program.
	Take Care of Your Feet for a Lifetime This illustrated patient booklet provides step-by-step instructions for proper foot care. It includes a tear-off reminder card and a patient "To Do" list.
	Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke
	Medicare Benefits Card: Glaucoma & Diabetic Eye Disease This promotional card by National Eye Institute and the National Institutes of Health was developed with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to promote the glaucoma and diabetic eye disease benefits under Medicare. The cards are available in both English and Spanish.
	Your GAME PLAN for Preventing Type 2 Diabetes This booklet provides patients with information about their risk for developing diabetes and how to implement a program to prevent or delay the onset of the disease, including information about setting goals, tracking progress, implementing a walking program and finding additional resources.
	It's Never Too Early to Prevent Diabetes This tip sheet is the latest addition to the National Diabetes Education Program's campaign, "Small Steps. Big Rewards. Prevent type 2 Diabetes", the nation's first comprehensive multicultural type 2 diabetes prevention campaign. The campaign offers materials that can help women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) take steps to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes and help their children lower their risk for the disease.
	Diabetes in Older People - A Disease You Can Manage Diabetes is a serious disease. It happens when your blood levels of glucose, a form of sugar, are too high. Diabetes can lead to dangerous health problems. The good news is that high glucose levels can be managed to help control the disease and prevent or delay future problems.
	The Pima Indians: Pathfinders for Health Describes the role of the Pima Indians in helping to understand diabetes and details NIDDK's efforts to improve clinical care and self-management practices among this group. Illustrated with historic photos and Pima artwork.
	Guiding Principles of Diabetes Care Learn more about the essential components of quality diabetes care for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes, their families, health care providers, and insurers.
	My Blood Pressure Wallet Card Talk with your doctor about the lifestyle changes that are appropriate for you. Check off the lifestyle changes of this "Blood Pressure Wallet Card" you are going to use to help lower your blood pressure.
	I Can Lower My Risk for Type 2 Diabetes This brochure is designed to educate American Indians and Alaska Natives on the lifestyle changes that can lower their risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
	Your Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure If your blood pressure is between 120/80 mmHg and 139/89 mmHg, then you have prehypertension. This means that you don’t have high blood pressure now but are likely to develop it in the future unless you adopt the healthy lifestyle changes described in this brochure.
	Diabetes Interactive Tookit for Seniors Diabetes is an interactive tool, including voice explanations, about all the aspects of Diabetes. It's offered by the NIH Senior Health from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
	Delicious Heart-Healthy Latino Recipes Learn to cook some of your favorite, traditional Latino dishes in a heart-healthy way. This bilingual cookbook contains 23 tested recipes that cut down on fat, cholesterol, and sodium but not on taste.
	National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse This Web page provides information on diabetes in racial and ethnic minorities, including risk factors, complications, death rates, pregnancy complications and more.
	"Am I at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes?" Download this brochure to find out if you are at risk for type 2 diabetes and what you can do about it...now!
	Diabetes Clearing House Here you'll find the most up to date information about Diabetes, including the latest news, alternative therapies, disease management, treatments prevention, etc. This is part of Medline Plus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health.
	Diabetes, an Interactive Tutorial Introduction (Patient Education Institute). (Requires Flash Player)

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