Diabetes Pro Quarterly - Spring 2021 - 7

Professional News

ADA, AHA Announce Know Diabetes by Heart Community Grant Recipients

The American Diabetes Association
(ADA) and the American Heart
Association (AHA) have awarded
up to $900,000 to community
organizations to help people living
with type 2 diabetes lower their risk for
cardiovascular events such as heart
attack, heart failure, and stroke.
These community grants are part of the
leading health nonprofits' joint Know
Diabetes by Heart™ (KDBH) initiative,
which seeks to reduce cardiovascular
events and deaths among people
with type 2 diabetes. The grants will
help organizations in 10 states deliver
diabetes and cardiovascular disease
(CVD) education materials and resources.
Outreach efforts will focus on engaging
Black and Latino populations, which
experience higher rates of diabetes, heart
disease, and stroke compared to nonHispanic White populations.
CVD remains the leading cause of
death and a major cause of disability
for people living with type 2 diabetes,
yet only about half of those ≥45 years
of age understand their increased risk

for developing heart disease or have
discussed it with their doctor.

InquisitHealth (NY, NV)
Peer Mentoring Program

" Knowledge is power, and arming
these community organizations with
resources and accessible information
is key for people with type 2 diabetes
to better understand their elevated
risk for heart disease and stroke, " said
Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD, FACP,
ADA Chief Scientific & Medical Officer.
" We are pleased to work with these
10 organizations that are dedicated to
improving the health of their communities
to get the information into the hands of
those who need it most. "

Johns Hopkins University (MD, KS)
DECIDE Self-Management Support
Program

" This is a good time to protect yourself
from diabetes-related heart disease
and COVID-19 by making lifestyle
changes that can help you improve your
overall health and better manage your
diabetes, " added Eduardo Sanchez,
MD, MPH, FAAFP, AHA Chief Medical
Officer for Prevention. " It's good for your
heart health and kidney health and will
contribute to a longer, healthier life. "
KDBH Community Grant Recipients
Clemson University (SC)
Health Extension for Diabetes
Gateway Community Health Center (TX)
Gateway Diabetes and Cardiovascular
Disease Self-Management Program

New Mexico State University (NM)
NMSU Cooperative Extension Service
diabetes self-management programs
Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute (CA)
Project Dulce - Dulce Digital
Texas A&M University Center for
Population Health and Aging (TX)
Your Diabetes, Your Heart
Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition -
University of Illinois at Chicago (IL)
Diabetes Empowerment Education
Program (DEEP)
Thomas Jefferson University
Hospital (PA)
Jefferson Health Preventive
Cardiology Program
Esperanza (PA)
Champions of Hope: Latinos
Preventing Diabetes
KDBH is made possible with support
from founding sponsors the Boehringer
Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company
Diabetes Alliance and Novo Nordisk and
national sponsors Sanofi, AstraZeneca,
and Bayer. For more information, visit
KnowDiabetesbyHeart.org.

Know Diabetes by Heart
Kidney Month Webinar Recap
The American Diabetes Association's
Know Diabetes by Heart initiative, the
American Kidney Fund, and the National
Kidney Foundation joined forces to
mark National Kidney Month. In a live
webinar on March 16, 2021, experts
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, a
professor of medicine and vice chief of
internal medicine at Baylor University
Medical Center; Orlando Gutierrez, MD,
a professor of medicine and head of the
Section of Epidemiology and Outcomes
Research in the Division of Nephrology at
the University of Alabama at Birmingham;
and Joseph A. Vassalotti, MD, chief medical officer of the National Kidney Foundation and a clinical professor of medicine in the
Division of Nephrology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discussed how chronic kidney disease in type 2 diabetes
contributes to cardiovascular disease. Diabetes professionals can view a video of the event here.

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