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Hawaiʻi Department of Health launches Beat Diabetes Prevention Program
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Health (DOH) recently launched a new public service announcement campaign to motivate people with prediabetes to adopt healthier behaviors to prevent Type 2 diabetes.
WATCH: What are the signs of heart disease in women? Doctor Travis Glenn with Maui Health explains
Having a family history of heart disease can increase your risk of having underlying heart disease. Other risk factors include diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, depression, stress, being sedentary, and having extra weight.
WATCH: Doctor Bradley Glenn with Maui Health explains what causes epilepsy
Treatment is available and can help control or prevent seizures from happening. In most cases, epilepsy can be treated with medication and/or surgery.
DOH Launches Healthy Hawaiʻi Strategic Plan and Unveils Vision for 2030
More than 200 stakeholders, advocates and visionaries across the state gathered virtually today to launch the Healthy Hawai‘i Strategic Plan 2030, a roadmap for improving the health of Hawai‘i residents by preventing and reducing chronic disease.
Expectant Moms in Hawaiʻi Wanted for Nationwide Gestational Diabetes Study
Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi Center for Health Research is seeking pregnant women in their first trimester and without diabetes to participate in the new nationwide GO MOMs study to improve gestational diabetes screening and diagnosis by better understanding blood glucose levels throughout pregnancy. The study is supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Kaiser Permanente Hawai‘i Medicare Plan Top 10 Nationally for Cancer Screening, Diabetes Care
Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi’s Medicare plan performed in the top 10 nationally on several measures of quality care, according to the National Committee for Quality Assurance Quality Compass report.
Maui Health Hosts 5th Annual Diabetes Awareness Free Community Health Fair
In Hawaiʻi, 442,000 adults have prediabetes, and two in three of these adults don’t know that they have it. Without intervention, 15% to 30% of those with prediabetes will develop type 2 diabetes within five years.
Study: Hawaiians Three Times More Likely To Have Diabetes Than Caucasians
A new study from Kaiser Permanente indicates that members of racial minority groups are more likely to have diabetes or prediabetes than Caucasians.
Maui Health System Hosts Diabetes Day Community Health Fair
In Hawaiʻi, 442,000 adults have prediabetes, and two in three of these adults don’t know that they have it.
YMCA Maui Awarded Grant to Support Healthy Lifestyles
YMCA Maui is the recipient of a $25,000 grant to implement the YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program, a program to prevent the onset of Type 2 diabetes.
Maui Health System to Host Diabetes Day Community Health Fair
The American Diabetes Association reports approximately 155K people in Hawai‘i have diabetes and another 460,000 have pre-diabetes
Diabetes in Hawaii
Diabetes is a common problem among adults throughout the United States and Hawaii is no exception. According to a diabetes report that came out a number of years ago, approximately 72,000 to 100,000 people in the islands currently have the disease. Of that number, as many as 25,000 may go without a diabetes diagnosis each […]
