 
Diabetes Dateline
Winter 2008
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Awareness and Prevention Series
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has created a new health information series to raise awareness about diabetes, digestive diseases, and kidney and urologic diseases among people not yet diagnosed with these illnesses.
The Awareness and Prevention Series, which the NIDDK developed for community health fairs, workplace health forums, family reunions, and similar events, features two-page fact sheets on a wide range of health topics. Each fact sheet gives readers a snapshot of an illness, highlighting risk factors, symptoms, prevention tips, and where to go for more information. The fact sheets are written in English on one side and Spanish on the other. Diabetes fact sheets address type 2 diabetes, prevention of diabetes problems, diabetes and risk for heart disease and stroke, and gestational diabetes.
“The series is designed to encourage readers to ask ‘Could this be me or someone I care for?’” said Kathy Kranzfelder, director of the NIDDK Information Clearinghouses. “Raising awareness of these illnesses, we hope, will help people learn to prevent them or see a doctor if they have symptoms.”
The copyright-free Awareness and Prevention Series publications can be downloaded or ordered through the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse website at www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/ap.htm. The website also has fact sheets and booklets with more complete information
about these topics and many others related to diabetes.
New to the Interactive Health Education Tools section of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) website are
Podcasts
- NIDDK to Launch New Information Campaign: Important Information about Diabetes
Blood Tests
- Interview with Dr. Francine Kaufman: World Diabetes Day
Vodcasts
- Information about World Diabetes Day
The NIDDK interactive tools section consolidates all the tools and resources about diabetes from the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine. To access these resources, visit www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/resources/HealthTools.
NDEP Introduces Resources to Help Teens Manage Diabetes
To download or order copies of the tip sheets, visit www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/youth/youth.htm#TSKidsType2.
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) has introduced a series of tip sheets and an online quiz to help teens manage their diabetes and reduce their risk for complications.
The Tips for Teens with Diabetes Series includes
- What is Diabetes?
- Be Active
- Make Healthy Food Choices
- Stay at a Healthy Weight
- Dealing With the Ups and Downs of Diabetes
The interactive quiz is based on information in the tip sheets and links directly to them. The NDEP also created a tip sheet for teens at risk for type 2 diabetes. The new tools support the 2007 World Diabetes Day campaign theme “Diabetes in Children and Adolescents,” which raises awareness of the rising prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes among youth worldwide.
While type 1 diabetes remains the most common form of diabetes among children and young adults, soaring obesity rates among young people are making type 2 diabetes more common, particularly in Hispanic, African American, and American Indian teens. One in 523 people younger than age 20—about 176,500 young people—has diabetes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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NIH Publication No. 08–4562
March 2008
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