Diabetes

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CDC’s Diabetes Program provides a website with multiple tools for diabetes prevention and control, including brochures for adults and children, information on diabetes program design, and links to other websites.
Flu and people with diabetes is for people with diabetes (type 1, type 2, or gestational), who even when well-managed, are at higher risk of developing serious flu complications that can result in hospitalization and sometimes even death.
The Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) is for people with diabetes to learn personalized strategies to manage diabetes, including taking medicines, planning healthy meals, and being active. DSMES is also for health care providers to improve health outcomes for patients with diabetes.
The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends combined diet and physical activity promotion programs for people at increased risk of type 2 diabetes based on strong evidence of effectiveness in reducing new-onset type 2 diabetes. Economic evidence indicates that combined diet and physical activity promotion programs to prevent type 2 diabetes among people at increased risk are cost-effective.
The CDC 6/18 Initiative has information on the evidence for controlling and preventing type 2 diabetes including key health and cost evidence messages for payers and providers.
National Diabetes Prevention Program is a partnership of public and private organizations working to reduce the growing problem of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. The partners work to make it easier for people with prediabetes to participate in evidence-based, affordable, and high-quality lifestyle change programs to reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes and improve their overall health.

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