 
Diabetes Dateline
Spring/Summer 2007
From the NDEP
Diabetes Slide Presentations
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) is creating a series of PowerPoint slides as a resource for health care professionals, diabetes educators, and students. The slides, which could be used individually or as an entire presentation, will highlight diabetes prevalence and incidence rates by age, sex, race, and ethnicity.
The slides will be available on the NDEP website at www.ndep.nih.gov and will be packaged in three sets:
- Diabetes: The Numbers
- Diabetes: The Science of Control
- Diabetes: The Science of Prevention
Youth and Diabetes
About 155,000 young people under age 20—one in every 523—have diabetes. Although type 1 diabetes is more common in this age group, type 2 diabetes is increasingly being diagnosed in young people and is more common in certain racial and ethnic groups.
In “Don’t Treat Me Like I’m Different: A Teenage Girl’s Life with Type 2 Diabetes,” Bethannie Ramirez describes what it is like to be a teenager with type 2 diabetes and how she manages her disease. The article is available at www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/Teen_w_Type2Diabetes.pdf (PDF, 29 KB).
The NDEP also has a tip sheet, Dealing With the Ups and Downs of Diabetes, which offers encouragement to teenagers with diabetes, and a tip sheet series for children with type 2 diabetes. Copies of these publications are available on the NDEP website at www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/youth/youth.htm.
New and Improved “Diabetes at Work” Website
The NDEP Business and Managed Care Work Group has revamped the “Diabetes at Work” website, which reaches out to employers and others interested in promoting diabetes management through worksite wellness. The site’s copyright-free, field-tested tools and materials—which include an interactive assessment tool for determining the prevalence of diabetes among employees, more than 36 lesson plans in English and Spanish, and case studies highlighting successful worksite programs—are now easier to use.
The site can help employers
- develop a diabetes prevention or management program
- estimate the number of employees with diabetes and total company cost of diabetes
- choose or design a health plan for people with diabetes
- obtain leadership support for a diabetes program
The Business and Managed Care Work Group includes the NDEP, National Business Group on Health, National Business Coalition on Health, and America’s Health Insurance Plans. To see what’s new, visit www.diabetesatwork.org/.
Spotlight on Partner Activities
The NDEP also has a website that highlights information about NDEP partners and their networking successes. The site now features activities of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health and the Puerto Rico Diabetes Prevention and Control Program. The NDEP has more than 200 partners at the federal, state, and local levels. These partners recently gathered in Decatur, GA, for a partnership network meeting and to celebrate the NDEP’s 10th anniversary. Visit the NDEP partner activities website at www.cdc.gov/diabetes/ndep/partners-spotlight.htm.
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NIH Publication No. 07–4562
May 2007
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