The American Diabetes Association has come up with a diabetes risk test that is readily available in a number of formats for anyone to take. You might wonder why there is a need for a diabetes risk test. The answer is simple – There are about 26 million people in the United States alone who have diabetes, and about 7 million of them don’t know it.

There’s a reason for that. Diabetes has known symptoms, but many of them come on slowly over time and the patient doesn’t really notice unless they pay specific attention to them. Things like increased thirst or more frequent need to urinate can be gradual and something you just don’t pay attention to. Also, many of the symptoms are easily misinterpreted for other ailments, and are common symptoms of many medical conditions. The symptoms themselves often don’t seem so terrible that anything needs to be …