We Are All At-Risk For Pre-diabetes

WE ARE ALL AT-RISK

For Pre-diabetes

Type 2 diabetes is a serious, chronic health condition that can lead to other serious health issues such as heart disease, stroke, blindness, and kidney failure. If you can prevent or even delay getting type 2 diabetes, you can lower your risk for all those other conditions. According to the CDC, approximately 88 million American adults— more than 1 in 3—have prediabetes.* Of those with prediabetes, more than 84% don’t know they have it.

Prediabetes is the period before diabetes is diagnosed where blood sugar levels are high but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.

You’re at risk for developing prediabetes if you are:

• 45 years or older

• Have a parent, brother, or sister with type 2 diabetes

• Are physically active less than 3 times a week

• If you ever had gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy) or given birth to a baby who weighed more than 9 pounds • African American, Hispanic/Latino American, American Indian, or Alaska Native. Some

Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans are also at higher risk.

Valley Health Plan has partnered with the YMCA Silicon Valley to offer VHP members a cost-free certified National Diabetes Prevention Program with free YMCA membership, that can help you make healthy changes that have lasting results. To find out your eligibility and information, please contact YMCA at www.ymcasv.org/dpp or 1.408.351.6440. Also, visit www.ymca.net/diabetes-prevention to learn more.