Diabetic Seniors

As people age their chances for a diabetic condition naturally increase, making diabetic seniors a more common and larger group than ever before. Luckily, there are now plans and help for diabetic seniors to be able to find affordable and convenient testing supplies and monitoring tools to better manage their ongoing, lifetime condition. Many diabetic [...]

Any person who has been diagnosed with a blood glucose condition is aware of the importance of a diabetes test strip. A diabetes test strip is a thin piece of plastic meant for one-time use. A small sample of blood can be either dropped onto a diabetes test strip or drawn into one (depending on [...]

ATLANTA – On Tuesday, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the nation’s leading authority on public health, announced that the prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. population has recently risen to 8% – a staggering estimate of 24 million people. Diabetes, a condition characterized by the inability of hormone producing cells within the [...]

The incidence of diabetes is increasing in the United States. The most recent diabetes statistics show that 23.6 million adults and children — 7.8 percent of the population — have the disease. What’s more, 24 percent of those 23.6 million people don’t even know they have it! Another 57 million people have pre-diabetes, which can [...]