National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) was started by the

NIH The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

and

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in 1997 to educate the public about the risks of diabetes. NDEP's goal was to reduce the illness and death caused by

diabetes Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level ( hyperglycemia) over a prolonged period of time. Symptoms often include frequent urination, increased thirst and increased ap ...

and its complications. To help meet this goal, NDEP provided free diabetes education information to the public. NDEP ended in 2019.

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National Diabetes Education Program
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