Verdugo Hills Urgent Medical Care

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Diabetes, a group of diseases that affect how your body uses blood sugar, is a leading cause of kidney failure, blindness and amputations, as well as a major cause of heart disease and stroke. The CDC's last report on diabetes published three years ago concluded that nearly 24 million Americans had diabetes, with approximately 6 million of them being totally unaware that they had the disease, and an additional estimated 57 million Americans had what is referred to as "Pre-diabetes".
The rate of diabetes in the United States has nearly doubled in the last ten years. A number of factors are linked to an increased risk of diabetes: getting older, family history, certain ethnic backgrounds, being overweight and not getting regular exercise. With the well known fact that obesity is on the rise, it is expected that millions more are at risk of developing diabetes, unless they are willing to seriously change their lifestyle to include proper diet and regular exercise.
Reliable information on all aspects of diabetes can be found by clicking on any of the links on the far right hand side of this page. Additional information on diabetes can be found in our video library, which you can access by going to the "Services" tab at the top of this page, clicking on the "Disease Management" drop down tab, then clicking on "General Healthcare", and then clicking on "Systemic and Genetic Disorders".

The 'Urgent Care Association of America' (UCAOA) strives to have Urgent Care Centers recognized as an essential part of the healthcare delivery system. To that end it offers a certification program to help patients distinguish centers that meet high quality standards.
There are more than 8,700 Urgent Care Centers in the U.S, of which only 167 are certified. VHMA is proud to be one of those 167 certified, as well as one of only 6 certified in California.
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