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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Marion County Public Health Department is continuing to offer free diabetes education classes.
For April, the classes will be at the Franklin Road branch of the Indianapolis Public Library.
The ABCs of Diabetes will be a four-part series designed to provide adults with diabetes and prediabetes, as well as their families and friends, with knowledge and resources for managing and preventing the disease.
This month’s classes will be from 1:30-3:30 p.m. on four Wednesdays — April 9, 16, 23, and 30 — and participants are asked to attend all four sessions.
The same series will be presented online in May, July, September and December.
Other libraries will host the series later this year: Martindale-Brightwood library branch in June, Eagle library branch in August, Glendale library branch in October, and Pike library branch in November.
Topics to be covered include healthy eating, increasing physical activity, medication management, and preventing complications associated with diabetes.
People can register and find more information online, or call 317-221-2094.
The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists has accredited the classes, the health department said in a news release issued Wednesday.
Information from the Indiana Department of Health says an estimated 12% of Indiana’s population had diabetes in 2021. That year, Hoosiers were diagnosed with diabetes at an average age of 47 years.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2021 estimated 11.6% of the population, or 38.4 million Americans, had diabetes. Of those, 29.7 million cases had been diagnosed cases. Also, the CDC estimated 97.6 million adults had prediabetes.