CARDIOVASCULAR WELLNESS- METABOLIC AND RENAL

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• American Diabetes Association: Providing information on type 1 and 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes. Common topics include information on reading food labels, exercising effectively, and recipes for healthy eating.
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: Health information, statistics, and links to organizations on diabetes, digestive, and kidney diseases from NIH
• Calculate your risk of developing pre-diabetes and diabetes using the Diabetes Risk Calculator 
• CheckUp America is a national prevention initiative of the American Diabetes Association aimed at helping people learn how to lower their risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The site includes a helpful CheckUp Chart that you can print out and bring to your next physical.
• How to Prevent or Delay Diabetes: Small changes in diet and exercise can prevent type 2 diabetes from developing or slow it in its tracks.
• Learn all about Pre-diabetes on the ADA website.
• Identifying Pre-diabetes In Time: The number of Americans with type 2 diabetes has tripled in the past 30-years, mostly from obesity. Federal officials hope to reverse a looming epidemic.
• Metabolic Syndrome X: Metabolic Syndrome is a common set of health problems that increase your risk for heart disease and diabetes. Find out more.
• Monitoring Your Blood Sugar: Guidelines on who should test their blood sugar, how to do it, and what the numbers mean.  
• The American Association of Kidney Patients: Library contains past and present published information from the AAKP. This section provides information about specific conditions, medicine, lifestyle improvement and the latest news and information from the renal community.
• Chronic Kidney Disease: Causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
• High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease: The kidneys play a key role in keeping a person’s blood pressure in a healthy range, and blood pressure, in turn, can affect the health of the kidneys. High blood pressure, also called hypertension, can damage the kidneys and lead to chronic kidney disease (CKD).
• The National Kidney Foundation is a major voluntary health organization, which seeks to prevent kidney and urinary tract diseases, improve the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by these diseases, and increase the availability of all organs for transplantation.

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