Articles written by Brooke Fredrickson

Brooke Fredrickson, CHI St. Alexius Health|Apr 1, 2019

Type 2 diabetes is an ever-growing health concern in the United States. Type 2 diabetes is linked to higher health care costs and risk of death related to heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and other diabetes-related complications. In North Dakota, 70,000 people or 11 percent of the population has type 2 diabetes. It is estimated that 35 percent of North Dakotans have prediabetes and may not even know it. In the recent years, the American Diabetes Association has pushed to provide awareness through events like Diabetes Alert Day, which was...