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June 1, 2005

Cool Tool for Assessing Diabetes Risk

According to the American Diabetes Association, 18.2 million Americans have diabetes and another 41 million are at risk ... and most don't even realize it. That's why the ADA, through its Doing Better: Tools For Diabetes Care initiative, has launched 'DIABETES PHD,' a free, online, interactive tool that not only assesses individual risk for developing diabetes, heart disease or stroke, but also allows users to modify their health variables to see how changes they make can reduce their risk for diabetes and its complications.

DIABETES PHD or 'Diabetes Personal Health Decision,' provides personal health profiles to help people understand their risk for diabetes or its serious complications. The program creates a whole set of personal clinical trials enabling users to see what might happen in the future based on health behavior changes.

Posted by Diabetologica at June 1, 2005 12:38 PM