Diabetes Dateline
Spring/Summer 2008

Additional Resources

For Women with Diabetes: Your Guide to Pregnancy

Pregnancy in women who have diabetes is considered high-risk. While millions of high-risk pregnancies produce perfectly healthy babies without harm to the mother’s health, pregnant women with diabetes need to pay careful attention to their health. The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse's (NDIC’s) new booklet For Women with Diabetes: Your Guide to Pregnancy explains how diabetes can affect a pregnant mother and her baby and includes checklists for planning a safe and healthy pregnancy. The booklet also discusses labor and delivery and issues to pay attention to after the baby arrives. Charts at the back of the booklet help women record their daily blood glucose, also called blood sugar, levels; food intake; and physical activity. To download a copy of the booklet, go to www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/a-z.asp. To order a free copy, visit www.catalog.niddk.nih.gov.

Updated Publications

The NDIC has updated the following publications:

• Diabetic Neuropathies: The Nerve Damage of Diabetes
• Guía para personas con diabetes tipo 1 y tipo 2 (Your Guide to Diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2)
• Lo que usted debe saber sobre la alimentación y la diabetes (What you need to know about eating and diabetes)
• What I need to know about Diabetes Medicines (former title: Medicines for People with Diabetes)

New Interactive Tools

New to the Interactive Health Education Tools section of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) website are

Videocasts

• Demystifying Medicine—Diabetes and Autoimmunity: Turning against Self
• Demystifying Medicine—Hunger, Appetite, Obesity, Addiction: The New Pandemic

Streaming Audio

• ¿Por qué los mexicoamericanos sufren más diabetes? (Why do Mexican Americans suffer more from diabetes?) 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.

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NIH Publication No. 08–4562
August 2008