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How a tablet can help treat diabetes: Watch this film to find out

A PBS documentary features four team-based practices with innovative health care methods. One employs wireless electronic tablets loaded with a care management application called “Care Innovations” which allows patients with diabetes to capture blood pressure and glucose levels.

Chronic Diseases
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Find effective diabetes prevention programs near your practice

In the average primary care practice, it’s likely that one-third of patients over age 18, and half over age 65, have prediabetes. A partnership between the AMA and the CDC will help physicians tap diabetes prevention programs in their communities or online.

Prevention & Wellness
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What is a diabetes prevention program?

One in three U.S. adults has prediabetes, the precursor to type 2 diabetes. Physicians can use an evidence-based diabetes prevention program to help these patients.

Prevention & Wellness
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Help patients know their prediabetes risk

It’s likely that a portion of your patient population has prediabetes, the precursor to type 2 diabetes. Today, use Diabetes Alert Day to raise awareness of their prediabetes risk and how can help prevent progression to type 2 diabetes.

Prevention & Wellness
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As prediabetes burdens nation, new solution available for physicians

It’s likely that one-third of patients over age 18, and half over age 65, have prediabetes. A new solution from the AMA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can help physicians prevent patients from progressing to diabetes and contribute to a healthier nation.

Prevention & Wellness
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Do you have prediabetes? Here are the signs

Could you be on your way to developing type 2 diabetes? Learn the signs of prediabetes, the precursor to diabetes that is reversible if caught early on, and what you can do to prevent type 2 diabetes.

Prevention & Wellness
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New AMA, CDC initiative aims to "Prevent Diabetes STAT"

Leading voices in health care launch urgent effort to reduce the incidence of type 2 diabetes, one of nation's most debilitating chronic diseases.

Press Releases
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Learn to treat a common diabetes complication, get CME

With the percentage of Americans with diabetes more than doubling in the past two decades, it’s important to know how to manage the disease’s complications. A continuing medical education activity can help.

Online CME
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Diabetes patients see better outcomes when blood pressure is lowered

A recent study in JAMA analyzed the associations between treatments lowering blood pressure and their effects on patients with type 2 diabetes. Although baseline blood pressure measurements varied among participants, the study collected enough data to determine a clear relationship between lowering blood pressure in people with type 2 diabetes and reducing their risk for microvascular and macrovascular health outcomes.

Prevention & Wellness