Type 2 Diabetes Patient Education Guide

Type 2 diabetes is an illness where the body is unable to process the glucose (sugar) in your blood from the food you eat.

Diabetes is a serious condition that requires daily self-care. Many people in the United States have diabetes and do not know it. Changes to the way the body processes sugar may occur long before the patient is diagnosed with diabetes.

The purpose of this program is to provide people with information for success in diabetes self-management and to prevent or delay the long-term effects of diabetes that may occur.

• Understanding diabetes
• Know your numbers-track your blood sugar
• Food and blood sugar
• Medications
• How to self-administer insulin
• Being active with diabetes
• Routine health care with diabetes

Our endocrinologists and certified diabetes educators offer convenient appointments at locations throughout Washington state.