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Did you know that diabetes is still a very common and serious disease! Diabetes is 1.8 times more likely to occur in blacks compared to non-Hispanic whites. Compared to their non-Hispanic white counterparts with diabetes, Blacks with diabetes also experience higher complications, such as cardiovascular heart disease, diabetic retinopathy, end-stage renal disease, and amputations.
This section provides the diabetes physician tool kit in support of the NMA Diabetes Education Program’s objective to educate physicians.
To assist you to educate patients in your practice who are at risk for diabetes and to help those patients with diabetes to take control of their disease, the tool kit provides the following resources:
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