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01 Part
Health Prediabetes in Black adults: can you actually reverse it?
Prediabetes means your blood sugar runs high but has not crossed into type 2 diabetes. It is common, usually silent, and progresses to diabetes more often in Black adults. The honest answer …
Lindsey Jones 8 min read -
02 Part
Health Type 2 diabetes in Black adults: symptoms, numbers, and care
Black American adults are about 60% more likely than White adults to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and Black Americans die from diabetes 78% more often than the U.S. population overall. …
Mark Jones 12 min read -
03 Part
Health A1C Chart for Black Adults: What Your Number Means
Below 5.7 percent is normal, 5.7 to 6.4 percent is prediabetes, 6.5 percent and above is diabetes. Here is what each range means, what it converts to in blood sugar, and why …
Lindsey Jones 14 min read -
04 Part
Health Metformin side effects and what Black patients should know
Metformin is the standard first medicine for type 2 diabetes, and most of its side effects are mild and manageable. The most common ones are digestive and tend to fade as your …
Mark Jones 7 min read -
05 Part
Health Numbness and tingling in your hands or feet: diabetic neuropathy and other causes
Numbness and tingling in your hands or feet, the pins-and-needles feeling, is most often peripheral neuropathy, and diabetes is the leading cause. This matters more for Black adults: diabetes is far more …
Mark Jones 8 min read -
06 Part
Health Diabetic Foot Ulcers in Black Adults: Preventing Amputation
A foot ulcer is the step that comes before most leg amputations, and the window to save the limb is narrow. This is what an ulcer looks like on dark skin, and …
Zuri Carter 13 min read -
07 Part
Medical Specialty Diabetic Retinopathy in Black Adults: Why the Yearly Exam Matters
Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults, and Black adults with diabetes carry more of it, more vision-threatening disease, and lower rates of the eye exam that catches …
Lindsey Jones 9 min read -
08 Part
Health Gastroparesis in Black Adults: The Diabetes Connection You Miss
If you have diabetes and live with nausea, vomiting, or feeling full after a few bites, your stomach may be emptying too slowly. This is gastroparesis, and it wrecks blood sugar control. …
Mark Jones 11 min read
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