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Helping Spanish speakers link type 2 diabetes and heart disease and stroke
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The American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association expand landmark Know Diabetes by Heart™ collaboration with Spanish campaign
DALLAS and ARLINGTON, VA., Sept. 21, 2020 — A new education campaign from the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association aims to increase awareness and action among Spanish language-dominant people with type 2 diabetes to underscore the link between type 2 diabetes and heart disease and stroke. The announcement comes during Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15).
The Spanish-language campaign, found at DiabetesdeCorazon.org, is an extension of the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association’s landmark Know Diabetes by Heart™ initiative. The new, year-round, multi-year effort addresses the disproportionate rate in which many Hispanics/Latinos experience type 2 diabetes and its devastating cardiovascular complications. The website includes educational resources and articles along with success stories and recipes.
“One out of two people who are Hispanic/Latino in the United States are projected to have type 2 diabetes over their lifetime [1],” said Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., MPH, FAAFP, the American Heart Association’s chief medical officer for Prevention. “The good news is you can thrive with a diabetes diagnosis and we want to make sure a language barrier doesn’t keep critical information like protecting your heart, brain and kidneys out of reach.”
People with type 2 diabetes are at double the risk of developing and dying from cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack, heart failure and stroke;[2],[3],[4] and people of Hispanic origin in the U.S. have the second highest rate of diagnosed diabetes (12.5%), behind American Indians/Alaskan natives (14.7%). Among U.S. adults of Hispanic origin, Mexicans (14.4%) and Puerto Ricans (12.4%) had the highest prevalence of diagnosed diabetes, followed by Central/South Americans (8.3%) and Cubans (6.5%), according to the CDC.[5]
“COVID-19 is a serious threat to everyone, but especially for Hispanics and Latinos with type 2 diabetes if their blood sugars are elevated. There is no better time than the present to make lifestyle changes and improve how you take care of yourself and manage your diabetes, and to work with your HCP to achieve your A1C goal,” said Robert Gabbay, M.D., PhD, chief scientific and medical officer for the American Diabetes Association. “Through this campaign, we hope to help people with type 2 diabetes break down some of the barriers that keep them from managing their diabetes and taking care of their hearts.”
Through Know Diabetes by Heart and its Spanish-language campaign, with founding sponsors the Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company Diabetes Alliance, and Novo Nordisk, and national sponsors Sanofi, AstraZeneca and Bayer, the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association are focused on positively empowering patients and supporting their health care providers to better manage the link between type 2 diabetes and heart disease and stroke.
Latinx at Heart: heart.org/NuestrasHistorias
The American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association launched the collaborative landmark initiative called Know Diabetes by Heart™ to comprehensively combat the national public health impact of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Through Know Diabetes by Heart™, the leading nonprofit associations, with founding sponsors the Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company Diabetes Alliance, and Novo Nordisk, and national sponsors Sanofi, AstraZeneca and Bayer, are focused on positively empowering people living with type 2 diabetes to better manage their risk for cardiovascular disease such as, heart attacks, strokes and heart failure, and supporting health care providers in educating and treating their patients living with type 2 diabetes to reduce their cardiovascular risk. Visit KnowDiabetesbyHeart.org for resources.
American Diabetes Association – Daisy Diaz, press@diabetes.org, 703-253-4807
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[1]Hispanic/Latino Americans and Type 2 Diabetes. CDC. Accessed Sept. 18, 2020. https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/features/hispanic-diabetes.html
[5] National Diabetes Fact Sheet 2020. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pdfs/data/statistics/national-diabetes-statistics-report.pdf
Diabetes de Corazon graphic
La diabetes también es un asunto del corazón.
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