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The Pre-Diabetes Epidemic in Minnesota: Understanding, Preventing, and Taking Action

Learn about the rising rates of pre-diabetes and diabetes in Minnesota, understand the health and financial costs, discover how the Diabetes Prevention Program works, and find out how you can get involved to protect your health and that of others. Take the Diabetes Risk Test and explore different paths to access prevention programs, such as mobile, clinical, on-site, and community-based options. Join the movement in protecting, maintaining, and improving the health of all Minnesotans by taking proactive steps to prevent type 2 diabetes.

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The Pre-Diabetes Epidemic in Minnesota: Understanding, Preventing, and Taking Action

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  1. Pre-diabetes: Are You At Risk?

  2. Agenda PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS • Diabetes and prediabetes facts • Health and financial cost of diabetes • How the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) works • How you can get involved

  3. Americans are living with diabetes PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS • Roughly one of every 11 adult Americans is living with diabetes (type 1 and type 2). • And one in three has prediabetes.

  4. The rise in prediabetes 86 million adults equals: Everyone in the top 100 U.S. cities, PLUS everyone in: Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois North Dakota South Dakota PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS If one in three people have prediabetes, that is 86 million adults in the U.S.! And within five years, one in three of those people move from pre-diabetes to diabetes!

  5. Diabetes: A costly proposition Average HC Costs $5,500 With chronic conditions $11,700 With diagnosed co-morbidities $16,779 PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS

  6. Stages of Diabetes PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS • Any inserted images must be MDH licensed • MDH has enterprise agreement w Adobe Stock • Look first in previously downloaded collection • X Drive/Communications/Photos/AdobeStock • New image requests for Adobe Stock images: • https://fyi.health.state.mn.us/photography

  7. Stages of Diabetes PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS As blood glucose rises, that measure places the patient in one of three categories (normal, prediabetes and diabetes). As an added side effect, a person’s risk of heart disease and other chronic issues increase. Prevention goals: Normal glucose: Strive for prevention and/or early detection Prediabetes: Prevent progression toType 2 diabetes Diabetes: Minimize complications

  8. Risk factors for prediabetes PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS • Obesity • Family history • Physical activity • High blood pressure • Race other than non-Hispanic white. • Diet • Screening Questions: • Male or female? • Mother, father, sister or brother with diabetes? • Ever diagnosed with high blood pressure? • Are you over the age of 45? • Are you physically active? • What is your body mass index (BMI)?

  9. Diabetes Risk Test PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS Take the Diabetes Risk Test at: Diabetes.org/minnesotarisktest

  10. Four convenient paths to access PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS • Mobile: Offered electronically by vendors and insurance companies • Clinical: Trained coaches employed by health care systems may offer the program locally • On-site: DPP provider offers program at employer sites or employee trained to offer program. Or, employer has trained an employee to be a coach and offer internally. • Community: YMCA, MN Extension Services, health departments, faith-based communities, community centers offer program at their locations.

  11. Let’s get started! PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS • Here’s what I,AS AN EMPLOYEE,will do to help prevent type 2 diabetes: • I will take the prediabetes self-test and, if I am at risk for type 2 diabetes, I will make an appointment with my doctor. • I will ask my employer whether a prediabetes class can be offered to my organization. • I will sign up for the DPP when offered at my organization. • I will promote the DPP with my coworkers.

  12. Thank you for doing your part to reverse the diabetes epidemic!

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