The Diabetes Know Now programme combines online diabetes risk assessment as well a home laboratory test kit, made and sold by Hooper Holmes.
You can complete a fast 17 question diabetes risk assessment questionnaire at diabetesknownow.com, to gauge your risk of developing or having diabetes.
Users who are high risk of getting diabetes are offered a home diabetes test kit.
Diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the most expensive and lasting chronic health conditions in America, with 23.6 million Amercian children and adult diabetics, nearly 8% of the population.
Should diabetes remain untreated it can be fatal.
A diabetic has on average 2.3 times the medical expenditure than those unaffected by diabetes.
There are many people who do not even know that they have this potentially fatal disease.
A shocking and worrying estimate is that there are around 57 million Americans aged 20 and above with pre-diabetes, a condition whereby the heightened blood sugar is not within the diabetic range.
Diabetes Know Now Provides Crucial Test for Potentially Fatal Disease
Wed, 21 Apr 2010
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