Pre-diabetes is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and kidney disease; all major health concerns in the African-American community. #NAACPConvention
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The theme for this year’s Health Symposium at #NAACPConvention is reducing diabetes through private-public partnerships. #DYK that more than 30.3 million people (all ages)—or 9.4% of the U.S. population—have diabetes?
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Diabetes—especially in communities of color—far too often leads to chronic, and end state kidney disease. If we advance kidney care in the U.S., then we will also advance health equity, b/c kidney disease disproportionately affects communities of color.
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