The Smart Guide to Diabetes Care
The Smart Guide to Diabetes Care provides an overview of the most important questions and answers for newly diagnosed patients. This brochure offers basic information on what is diabetes, ways to manage diabetes and how to work with your diabetes healthcare team to create a management plan that fits your needs and helps to achieve your targeted glucose goals.

Blood Glucose Monitoring and Diabetes
La importancia del monitoreo de glucosa en sangre y diabetes
Intended to promote the importance of blood glucose monitoring, this brochure helps provide you with a better understanding of target blood glucose levels, frequency of testing and interpreting your test results. Includes the published American Diabetes Association target blood glucose goals.

Healthy Eating and Diabetes
Los alimentos saludables y la diabetes
Medical nutrition therapy is an important component of good diabetes care. This guide to meal planning-eating the right foods, the right amounts, at the right times-also addresses the importance of blood glucose monitoring in understanding how food affects blood glucose levels.

Physical Activity and Diabetes
Actividad física y diabetes
Physical activity is a key component for managing your diabetes. This educational tool provides information about discussing your activity program with your healthcare professional, setting realistic and achievable goals and selecting the right activities that meet your lifestyle needs.

High and Low Blood Glucose Levels
Niveles altos y bajos de glucosa en sangre
While you try your best to keep your blood glucose levels in your target range, there are times when glucose levels fall outside this range.

This peace of mind communication will help you understand and recognize the symptoms of high and low blood glucose levels and how to effectively treat and prevent further complications.

Medications and Diabetes—
Understanding Oral Medications (Pills)
Los medicamentos y la diabetes, explicación sobre los medicamentos orales (pastillas)
A quick, helpful guide to assist you in understanding and complying - safely and effectively - with your medication schedule. Because there are several types of diabetes pills, and each works on a different area of the body to lower blood sugar levels, we've compiled a handy chart highlighting common medication types and names, with explanations of how each medication works.

Understanding the Importance of Insulin for Diabetes Management
Los medicamentos y la diabetes, una guía inteligente para entender la función de la insulina
This guide focuses on the goals of insulin therapy and kinds of insulin available. You'll learn about different insulin delivery options, and better understand the importance of blood glucose monitoring for helping to achieve your target goals and a healthier lifestyle. You'll also find a useful chart showing how and when insulin begins to work and its levels and durations of effectiveness.

The Diabetes Quiz: Are You at Risk for Developing Diabetes?
Cuestionario de la diabetes: ¿Está usted en una situación de riesgo de contraer diabetes?
Almost 21 million American have diabetes, and over six million don’t even know it! This concise quiz helps individuals assess their risk for developing diabetes, based on weight, lifestyle, exercise habits, heredity and heritage. By spending just a few minutes with this quiz, it’s possible to determine a risk level from low to very high. Also includes key facts about the disease and potential indicators of disease onset.

Blood Glucose Monitoring—Helping You Achieve Accurate Results
This brochure provides guidelines for achieving accurate results with blood glucose monitoring systems and covers frequently asked questions about variables that could affect the accuracy of results. A section on troubleshooting blood glucose meters and test strips is part of this sound, overall introduction and education about meters and their advantages for maintaining optimum health.