North Carolina Medical Society, AMA partner to prevent type 2 diabetes

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RALEIGH — The North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) today announced a joint effort aimed at reducing the incidence of type 2 diabetes in North Carolina. Diabetes affects roughly 1 million adults in the state and has more than 50,000 new diagnoses per year. 

Through the new collaboration, the NCMS and AMA will work to significantly increase the number of North Carolina physicians and health care providers identifying and diagnosing patients with prediabetes—the precursor to type 2 diabetes. The partnership will also encourage more referrals of patients with prediabetes to an evidence-based National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) lifestyle change program recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

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