AMA launches multi-state effort to prevent type 2 diabetes

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As part of ongoing work to reduce the incidence of type 2 diabetes nationwide, AMA collaborates with eight additional states to reach more of the estimated 84 million Americans who unknowingly live with prediabetes

CHICAGO — As National Diabetes Awareness Month gets underway, the American Medical Association (AMA) today announced a multi-state effort aimed at reducing the incidence of type 2 diabetes nationwide. Building off of its initial work to prevent new cases of type 2 diabetes in California, Michigan and South Carolina, the AMA is launching similar statewide efforts in eight additional states to help reach more of the 84 million American adults who unknowingly live with prediabetes — the precursor to type 2 diabetes.

 

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