{"id":15941,"date":"2025-11-24T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/?p=15941"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:28:13","slug":"national-diabetes-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/news\/national-diabetes-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"National Diabetes Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-embed-wrapper video-embed-16x9\" data-video-provider=\"youtube\" data-video-id=\"IYg25EzdCKQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed-iframe\"  title=\"Take Charge of Tomorrow: Preventing Diabetes Health Problems\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IYg25EzdCKQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>November is National Diabetes Month and here\u2019s why we all need to pay attention to this: According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), approximately 38.4 million people of all ages in the United States have diabetes. This is more than 11% of the population. More than twice that number, about 97.6 million people aged 18 years or older have prediabetes (38% of the adult U.S. population.)<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes, a disease that causes blood sugar levels in the body to be too high, is not an equal opportunity player. Your income level, race, ethnicity, and level of education all influence the likelihood of your getting diabetes and as with so many other things, it\u2019s the people who are already in a disadvantaged pool who are at greater risk for developing this life-threatening disease.<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high. But whether you\u2019ve been diagnosed with diabetes, pre-diabetes, or just want to avoid it altogether, there are things you can do to help keep yourself healthy. Follow this link for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Taking charge of your health may help you prevent diabetes health problems. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/hopkinsdiabetesinfo.org\/\">The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes<\/a> for helpful resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that one out of every ten Americans has diabetes? Learn about the risk factors for developing this disease. Take steps to make healthy lifestyle choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":31484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15941"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42818,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions\/42818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}