November is National Diabetes Month

Diabetes is one of the leading causes of disability and death in the United States. If it’s not controlled, diabetes can cause blindness, nerve damage, kidney disease, and other health problems.

One in 12 Americans has diabetes – that’s more than 25 million people. And another 79 million adults in the United States are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

The good news?  People who are at high risk for type 2 diabetes can lower their risk by more than half if they make healthy changes. These changes include: eating healthy, increasing physical activity, and losing weight. Here are just a few ideas:

• Make small changes, like taking the stairs instead of the elevator
• Get regular checkups
• Get blood pressure and cholesterol checked, and ask the doctor about diabetes risk

2015 FREE Pre-diabetes Seminars 

All begin at 3:30pm
Wednesday, January 21 
Wednesday, April 22
Wednesday, July 22 
Wednesday, October 21
To register, call (586) 493-2069

For additional information about ways to prevent type 2 diabetes or to take a diabetes risk assessment, open the links below.

Choose More than 50 Ways to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
Are You at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes - Diabetes Risk Test

FREE Seminar Advanced Wound Care Treatment

Heal better, feel better.

If you have a non-healing wound for 30 days or more, you may benefit from the McLaren Macomb Wound Treatment Center.

Every year chronic wounds caused by poor circulation, diabetes, or other
medical conditions keep five million people from functioning at normal
capacity. Such wounds include:

• Diabetic foot ulcers
• Pressure ulcers
• Non-healing surgical wounds
• Arterial ulcers
• Collagen vascular related wounds
• Venous stasis ulcers

Chronic wounds require specialized care and treatment.

Learn more about advanced wound care treatment at this FREE seminar.

Advanced Wound Treatment Seminar

Thursday, December 12, 2013
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
McLaren Macomb Medical Auditorium
Enter at Outpatient Entrance
(east parking lot and proceed to lower level of east tower)

This is a FREE community event but registration is required.
To register, call (855) 362-5273, or visit mclaren-woundcare.eventbrite.com

When the diagnosis is diabetes, what’s next? FREE expo with panel of experts

The Diabetes Center at McLaren Macomb will host a free diabetes education event offering the latest information on preventing and managing diabetes to reduce complications. The annual Diabetes Expo will be held Wednesday, October 2, 2013,1 p.m. to 3 p.m., in McLaren Macomb’s medical education auditorium (on the hospital’s lower level, east tower).

A panel of physicians will discuss the latest information on how diabetes relates to other medical conditions, especially heart disease, the nervous system and the digestive tract.