According to the American Diabetes Association, almost 8 percent of all Americans (23.6 million people) have diabetes and about a quarter of these don't even know they have it! Another 57 million have pre-diabetes and are at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes (or adult on-set diabetes). Pregnant women are at risk for getting gestational diabetes.

Know Your Diabetes Risk

Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. and is the leading cause of blindness, leg amputation not resulting from trauma, and kidney disease. Diabetes increases the risk of complications in pregnant women. It also increases the risk of getting heart disease and stroke. In fact, people who have diabetes are two to four times more likely to die from heart disease or stroke as people without diabetes.

Check here to see if you are at risk for diabetes.

But there is good news! Getting type 2 diabetes can be delayed or prevented, and diabetes itself can be managed and sometimes reversed through lifestyle changes or with the help of medication.

	What is diabetes? — link to information on the American Diabetes Association Web site.
	Preventing diabetes — helpful resources on how to delay or prevent getting diabetes.
	Living with diabetes — resources for those diagnosed with diabetes.
	Spanish-language resources — available through the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH.