Are You At Risk?

Under Family Category: Family Health

Risk factors for diabetes and impaired fasting glucose include:

1. Being obese or even moderately overweight

2. A family history of diabetes

3. High cholesterol or triglyceride levels

4. Gestational diabetes (having high blood-sugar levels during pregnancy)

5. Having had a baby with a birth weight of nine pounds or greater

6. Being of Hispanic, AfricanAmerican, Asian-American or Native American descent.

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Should You Be Tested? - Diabetes · Family, Children and Parenting wrote on December 7, 2007 - 6:23 am | Visit Link

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