Fighting Diabetes, Proactively!

Retina Scans can be used to identify Diabetes.

Project Vision, the group offering the scans, says the 10-minute process can help identify diabetes and other diseases, such as high-blood pressure and glaucoma.[via]

NHS Choices , the website of NHS, today launched a new diabetes symptom checker on their website.

You can find out whether you have the risk of having Diabetes or not. This is very handy for all those who have a genetic probabilty of having diabetes.

Click below to check whether you have diabetes:
Diabetes Symptom Checker

This online tool also provides the user with clinically approved guidance on what their results mean and what next steps, if any, may be required.

“This interactive tool has been created with users in mind and is a valuable addition to an ever growing armoury of health resources being made available to the public by the NHS Choices,” said a spokesman. “It puts patients in the driving seat by giving them exactly the sort of reliable and dependable information they need to take control of their health at the click of a mouse.”

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