Diabetes is a serious disease and is growing at epidemic proportion. Did you know:

• Every minute, three people are diagnosed with diabetes
• More than 330,000 people in Northeast Ohio are living with diabetes
• Cuyahoga County has the highest prevalence of diabetes out of the 88 Ohio counties
• Today, in the US, 55 people will go blind from diabetes
• Two out of three people with diabetes die from heart disease and stroke
• Without proper management, diabetes shortens a person’s life span by an average of 10 years

The diabetes facts may be daunting, but you can make a difference.

Consider walking in the The American Diabetes Association’s 2009 Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes on Saturday, October 3 at the Time Warner Cable Amphitheater at Tower City.


The American Diabetes Association is the only non-profit organization supporting all 23.6 million Americans living with diabetes—including type 1 and type 2 diabetes; children and adults.

Join the Lakewood Hospital team as we Step Out to fight diabetes together! Just one step at a time we can change the future of diabetes.

To register for Step Out today, visit www.diabetes.org/stepout