The American Diabetes Association created the Women and Diabetes Workgroup and has issued a Book "10 steps to better life with diabetes". Diabetes is the fifth-deadliest disease in the United States, and it can't be treated.

The statistics is too bad: almost 21 million people including both adults (with 9.7 million women among them) and children in the US have diabetes. Significant part of them does not know about their disease. The research has shown that diabetes happens 2-4 times more often among Hispanic/Latino, African American, American Indian, and Asian/Pacific Islander women than among white women.

ADA has developed their Women and Diabetes Workgroup because diabetes can be especially hard on women because it can affect not only them but even their unborn children. Diabetes often causes miscarriage or defects on foetus. The risk of diabetes increases with age, and women with diabetes have a heart attack more often and at a younger age than women without diabetes.

"The risk of developing diabetes exists for women who do not currently have diabetes during pregnancy. The type of diabetes that develops during pregnancy is called gestational diabetes and it develops in 2% to 5% of all pregnancies but disappears when a pregnancy is over. If woman has given birth to child weighting more than 4,1 kg, she has a risk for developing type 2 diabetes later in life," ADA informs.

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