This is Diabetes Awareness Month.

Educating yourself on the condition and being aware that people of all ages are dealing with it is an important step.

Bruce Krentz with the Northern Health Region shares some details here.

“Seven in ten adults living with diabetes are of a working age so diabetes in the work place is something that we don’t talk about and sometimes people feel a little anxiety or depression or other mental health conditions because of it.”

Krentz said we should support our co-workers with diabetes and ask them how we can help them to manage the disease, especially at the work place.

He added that whether you have diabetes or any other condition, that you should ask your health care provider questions about it so you can understand and treat it better.