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developing diabetes.
• Having a family member with
diabetes increases my risk to develop
diabetes.
True. Having a mother, father,
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brother, or sister with diabetes increases your chances of getting this disease.
• If you are under forty, there is
little risk to develop diabetes.
• If you have diabetes (high blood
sugar levels are high is to check them.
False. Although it is still uncomsugar levels), you will know it.
• Diabetes cannot hurt me if I have
mon for people to develop diabetes
False. There are an estimated seven no symptoms and feel okay.
under the age of twenty, about one out
million people in America who have
False. If your blood sugar levels
diabetes right now and do not know
are elevated over a period of time, you of every ten adults over age twenty in
it according to the American Diabetes
will be at risk for damage to your eyes, America have diabetes.
• Having high blood pressure can
Association 2011 Data Fact Sheet. You kidneys, or nervous system which can
increase my risk for having diabetes.
may not feel sick in any way if you delead to blindness, kidney disease, and
True. Having high blood pressure,
velop diabetes. Or you might often feel amputations. You may not know about
tired or thirsty, but attribute it to other this damage until it is too late to repair even if you control it with medication,
puts you in a category of higher risk for
causes. The only way
it. Ask your doctor about your Fasting
to know if your blood Glucose (blood sugar level), and answer developing high blood sugar levels also,
if you have one other risk factor such
the following questions to see if you
as being overweight.
are at risk for diabetes.
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• Having diabetes during pregnan• Being overweight is a risk factor
cy increases my risk of diabetes.
for getting diabetes.
True. Once you have experienced
True. If your weight for height
gestational diabetes, you have a 20is equal to or higher than the weight
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