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Diabetes

Diabetes is a chronic condition in which the body's ability to metabolize glucose is impaired or lost. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which cells in the pancreas that make insulin are destroyed. People with Type 1 diabetes must take insulin.

 

Type 2 diabetes is when the body cannot produce enough insulin, or the insulin is defective. Some people can control Type 2 diabetes with diet and exercise. Others may need insulin. Gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy when the mother's body is unable to handle the increased insulin demands. Gestational diabetes ends when the baby is born, but places women who have had it at higher risk for diabetes later in life.

As diabetes becomes more widespread in American, the need to understand it grows. Knowledge is the key to successfully coping with the disease.

Are you at risk?

Workshops and Services at the Welch Diabetes Education Center:

 Services at the Welch Diabetes Education Center include:

Adult Workshop
Pediatric Workshop
Individual counseling 
Insulin Regulation
Type 1 or 2 Diabetes with Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes 
Follow- up education/supportive care 
Pre Pump assessment 
Medical nutrition therapy
 

Please also see:

<Welch Diabetes Education Center

American Diabetes Association

Please call 812-885-8040 for more information.
Good Samaritan Hospital, 520 S. Seventh St., Vincennes, IN 47591