FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) – Local health educators say too many Hoosiers are living with diabetes or prediabetes and don’t know it until they’re facing serious and sometimes permanent complications.
With National Diabetes Awareness Month underway, experts at Healthways Alliance in Fort Wayne are urging people to take early detection seriously.
“Once you have diabetes, it’s a forever diagnosis,” said Genia Freeman, a certified community health worker at Healthways Alliance. She says prediabetes is one of the biggest red flags she sees being ignored…