Are You at Risk?

Diabetes rates are increasing right along with obesity and sedentary lifestyles, putting one in three newborns of Lancaster County, Nebraska, at risk for developing diabetes, but taking action now can lower those odds. Diabetes can lead to blindness, stroke, heart attack, amputations, kidney failure, and many other serious health problems, even death. Choices that you make every day have a huge impact on decreasing your personal chances of developing diabetes in the first place and of living a healthy life even if you have diabetes.

Learn more about your risk by reviewing the symptoms of diabetes, taking the risk assessment test , and reading the high-risk group information provided.

Symptoms

You, or someone among your friends or relatives, may have diabetes and not know it. Symptoms may include any, some, or all of the following:

• Being very thirsty, hungry, or tired
• Needing to empty your bladder frequently
• Losing weight without trying
• Having frequent infections or sores that heal slowly
• Having dry, itchy skin
• Losing the feeling (numbness) in your feet
• Having a tingling feeling, especially in your feet
• Having blurry eyesight