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Are You At Risk?

Millions of people have diabetes and they don't even know it.

Diabetes is a silent disease. Without diagnosis and treatment, diabetes may result in long-term complications, such as: blindness, heart attack, stroke, kidney disease or amputation.

The rate of diabetes in the United States has risen to levels beyond epidemic, according to the surgeon general's report. Annually, 1.3 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed.

An estimated 120,000 Utah residents have diabetes.

Diabetes is a serious disease, but the complications of diabetes can be delayed or prevented with frequent monitoring, proper nutrition, exercise, and medication.

Please take a moment to answer the following quetions.

Yes No  
Are you 45 years or older?
Are you overweight?
Do you have a family history of diabetes?
Are you physically inactive?
Are you Latino, African American, Asian, or Native American?
Are you a woman who has had a baby weighing more than nine pounds?
Do you have high blood pressure?
Do you have a low HDL, the "good" cholesterol, less than 40 mg/dl or a triglyceride level of 150 mg/dl or more?
Do you have a history of coronary artery disease, stroke or poor circulation to legs or feet?
Have you been previously identified with high or "borderline" high blood sugar?
Do you have numb or tingling feet?
Are you usually tired for no reason?
Are you frequently thirsty and need to urinate often?
Do you have frequent skin or genital (yeast) infections?

If you have answered YES to three of these important questions, please take these results to your physician at your next appointment.