The tools in this section cover specific actions that patients can take to help prevent diabetes-related complications affecting their feet, eyes, teeth and gums, heart, and sexual health.
These materials are designed to reinforce your explanations of the disease’s potentially serious complications—and to help you stress the importance of self-management to your patients.
- Put Your Best Feet Forward
Communicates to patients the importance of foot health. Gives tips on how to maintain their feet, avoid potential problems, and use preventive care.
[PDF: 536 KB, 2 pages] - Seeing Your Way to Timely Eye Care
Provides healthy guidelines for your patients on taking care of their eyes and vision.
[PDF: 539 KB, 2 pages] - Put Your Heart Into Managing Type 2 Diabetes
Gives an overview of the effects of diabetes on the heart and why it's critical for patients with type 2 diabetes to follow the treatment plan you create for them.
[PDF: 539 KB, 2 pages]
Healthy Steps You Can Smile About
[PDF: 298 KB, 2 pages]
[PDF: 298 KB, 2 pages]
Diabetes and Men's Sexual Health
[PDF: 532 KB, 2 pages]
[PDF: 532 KB, 2 pages]
Diabetes and Women's Sexual Health
[PDF: 534 KB, 2 pages]
[PDF: 534 KB, 2 pages]
