On the Road to Diabetes? A Look at High Prediabetes Rates in California

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Tuesday, Mar. 01, 2016
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12:00 PM - 01:00 PM PST

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UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
10960 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1550
Los Angeles, CA 90024
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On the Road to Diabetes? A Look at High Prediabetes Rates in California

​Nearly ten percent of the adult population in California has diabetes but how many more have conditions that presage the onset of diabetes? How can the path towards diabetes be reversed? And what is the likely effect of the population with prediabetes on the future of California’s health and budget? In this seminar, Susan H. Babey, co-director of the Center’s Chronic Disease Program, discusses findings from a study on the prevalence of prediabetes in California. She also talks about what policymakers and health advocates can do to try to help prevent the progression from prediabetes to diabetes.

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Speakers

Susan Babey, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Susan H. Babey, PhD, is a co-director of the Chronic Disease Research Program and a senior research scientist at UCLA CHPR. She focuses on the prevention of chronic health conditions and social and environmental determinants of health.