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Learn about diabetes from the Office on Women’s Health.

Learn about the symptoms of type 2 diabetes, what causes the disease, how it’s diagnosed, and steps you can take to help prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.

Learn about diabetes and eye disease; symptoms, warning signs, and treatments; and how you can prevent eye disease—or keep it from getting worse.

Aprenda cómo usted puede prevenir la diabetes tipo 2.

In this episode of Healthy Moments, Dr. Griffin Rodgers, director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, explains that if you're at risk for prediabetes, you should find out, because you can take steps to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.

Learn what the A1C test is, how it works and is used to diagnose and monitor type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, when it doesn’t work, and how A1C relates to eAG.

Learn how you can prevent type 2 diabetes, such as losing weight by being active and eating low-calorie, low-fat foods, or taking the diabetes drug metformin.

Prediabetes: Could It Be You?

How do you get people to take prediabetes seriously? Make them laugh.

Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal established by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. PCD provides an open exchange of information and knowledge among researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and others who strive to improve the health of the public through chronic disease prevention.