Diabetes - Symptoms & Diagnosis

As part of Diabetes Alert Day, March 27, 2012, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) posted updated information on Diabetes' diagnosis and prevention on its website. This includes a Quiz (below), which the CDC invites you to take...

If you have a family history of diabetes, are obese, are over age 45 and get little or no exercise, or belong to certain racial or ethnic groups you may be at risk. Take a simple quiz provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)...

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by the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. >>View Info

Diabetes: Signs and Diagnosis, by by National Institutes of Health — Senior Health. Explains that diabetes is known as a “silent” disease because it may not show any symptoms. Discusses signs to watch for, and tests to undergo for diagno...

Type 2 Diabetes – Symptoms, , by Mayo Clinic. MayoClinic.com. »View Info

Diabetes – Diagnosis, by Cleveland Clinic. ClevelandClinic.com. »View Info

A new study published October 22 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a journal of the American Medical Association, has found that type 2 diabetes patients who consumed at least one cup of legumes (such as beans, chickpeas or lentils) per day signifi...

The Palm Beach County Medical Society announced that it will hold its sixth annual Future of Medicine Summit on September 27-28, 2012. A number of notable national and regional health care experts will speak at the Summit, which will be open to the pu...

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has declared November as American Diabetes Month. This is an annual event, a time to become informed about diabetes and the importance of diabetes prevention and control. As illustrated in the ADA poster ...

New statistics show an alarming increase in type 2 diabetes of pandemic proportions worldwide, which is linked to the continuing, dramatic increase in obesity now being widely reported in the U.S. and worldwide. Addressing this worldwide "diabetes...

Diabetes Tests, from the American Association of Clinical Chemistry, February 29, 2008. »View Info

Geriatric Depression Scale, provides explanation and links to a short form and longer form “mood assessment scale”/ questionnaire (in various languages) offered by two Stanford professors as a rough diagnostic test for whether an elderly perso...