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New York/New Jersey VA Health Care Network

 

VISN 2 Diseases and Conditions - Diabetes VA Health Care

VA Health Care Upstate New York offers diabetes screenings and resources for all Veterans to help manage diabetes or prediabetes.

Services Include:
  • Diabetes screenings
  • Glucose level monitoring
  • Weight management
  • Eating tips
  • Practical exercises
  • Diabetic eye care
Learn more about what diabetes is and how to take control of it. Click on the Diabetes Self-Skills booklet for more information on:
  • What is diabetes?
  • Eating healthy
  • Being active
  • Blood glucose monitoring
  • Medications
  • Sick day management
  • Living well with diabetes

Other resources offered by VA Health Care Upstate New York that support diabetes management are VA’s Move! Weight Management program and VA’s Telehealth program.

Read Three Steps to Avoid Diabetes by Dr. Carlos E. Mendez, a clinical diabetologist at the Albany Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The three steps include:
  1. Exercise
  2. Eat right
  3. Keeping tracking of blood pressure, cholesterol, hemoglobin A1c and urine protein levels.

Diabetes Handbook Cover  Diabetes Self-Skills booklet

Plan your Plate Booklet cover  Plan Your Plate for Diabetes

Retinal Brochure Cover  Digital Retinal Screening brochure
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Diabetes and Eye Disease **
MyHealtheVet
Top Ten Diabetes Risk Factors


Diseases and Conditions

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