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How can you get the most from Lark for Hypertension? Follow our guide and control your high blood pressure to live a healthier lifestyle.

Gestational diabetes develops during pregnancy and causes high blood sugar that can affect your pregnancy and your baby's health.

What is “wellness?” Is it making healthy choices each day? Is it being more aware of your physical, mental, and emotional health?

Diabetes may be a chronic condition that changes your life, but using Lark Diabetes Care can help, so great job getting started!

Is walking good for you? The benefits of walking include; weight loss, improved health, mental clarity and is a simple way to prevent diabetes.

Can eating fiber help you lose belly fat? Depends on the type of fiber! Fiber helps lower cholesterol, stabilize blood sugar, and digestion.

Unlike sugars and starches, fiber does not pile on the calories and spiking your blood sugar.

Eating fast food can be hard to avoid. Here are some tips for a healthy fast food breakfast for diabetes to keep blood sugar stable.

Summer is around the corner. Are you ready? If you have prediabetes and are overweight or obese, losing extra weight can be one of the most effective ways to get your blood sugar under control.

What you eat is one of the most important factors in controlling diabetes, but eating fast food with diabetes can be done if you choose the right foods.

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Since chronic diseases are the greatest driver of healthcare costs and lost productivity, you cannot afford to ignore their impact. As an employer or insurer, you need to know that 9 in 10 healthcare dollars in the United States are spent on chronic diseases and mental health conditions for a total annual cost of about $3 trillion.</p>

The world has gone digital. Are you keeping up? Digital therapeutics are not the <em>next</em> big thing in healthcare.

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This study evaluated the impact of a virtual version of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) on healthcare utilization and costs in a Medicare Advantage population. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Diabetes Prevention Program is recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an effective way to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes among individuals with prediabetes or high type 2 diabetes risk. The DPP has been shown to lower 3-year diabetes risk by over 50%. </p>

Chronic disease management is a necessity, not a choice, for Medicare Advantage payors. Chronic diseases affect 60% of adults and place, by far, the biggest burden on the healthcare system.

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Prescription medications can save lives and improve quality of life when used properly, but they are not always as effective as they could be. That is not because of poor medical care or problems with the drugs themselves. Rather, there is a major problem with medication non-adherence.</p>

What is the Anti-Diet Diabetes Diet? This way of approaching food to help you feel better each day, lose weight, and manage your blood sugar.

How does Alcohol and type 2 diabetes affect blood sugar? You might be asking this common question if you have diabetes or prediabetes.

Finding healthy snacks for diabetics can be challenging, especially when trying to find foods that can help maintain a healthy A1c, won’t spike your blood sugar,

When trying to add more whole grains, you need to know which ones to choose. Whole-wheat and whole-grain products are everywhere, but which are best?

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Diabetes is taking a toll on the country’s healthcare system and economy. The condition affects 1 in 8 adults, is the seventh-leading cause of death and a common factor in heart disease and stroke. Many providers offer a DPP, but Lark has a digital DPP with full CDC recognition. Lark DPP is a personalized lifestyle coach that is easy to implement and infinitely scalable.</p>

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Prescription medications can often help manage chronic diseases, but their drawbacks can include high upfront costs, side effects or complications, and lack of effectiveness due to low adherence. Lifestyle changes are known to lower risk for and help control many chronic conditions.</p>

Chronic disease management is a necessity, not a choice, for payors. Chronic diseases affect 60% of adults and place, by far, the biggest burden on the healthcare system. Improving chronic disease management processes and outcomes in your organization could lower your costs and improve productivity.

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Given that we know how to prevent diabetes and there are DPP providers nationwide, why are cases of diabetes increasing, and how can we reverse the trend? </p>

We all know we should exercise, but what's next? Do you know how much exercise should be done per week, what to do, and how to get started?

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Chronic disease prevention and management strategies can be multi-faceted and targeted towards all three levels of prevention. Realistic strategies must consider cost and cost-effectiveness, reach, and effectiveness. These are some approaches to chronic disease prevention that can have widespread impact.</p>

Since chronic diseases are the greatest driver of healthcare costs and lost productivity, you cannot afford to ignore their impact. As an employer or insurer, you need to know...

A Mediterranean diet is known for being heart healthy, but what if you have diabetes? It can be a great choice for controlling blood sugar.

Should you drink smoothies if you have diabetes? The answer depends on what kind of smoothie, and whether they help you get needed nutrients.

Smoothies can be delicious, refreshing, and convenient. They can deliver protein, fiber, and antioxidants, get you to eat a wider variety of vegetables and other superfoods than you might otherwise choose. They could even help you lose weight. But are smoothies healthy?

Type 2 diabetes affects approximately 8 percent of adults in the United States...

Prediabetes affects 1 in 3 Americans, including half of those over age 65. Only 8 to 14% of those with prediabetes know they have it, so how do you know?

The glycemic index of a food is a measure of how it affects your blood sugar. Foods with a high GI leads to a quick and high spike in your blood sugar levels, followed by a dip. Foods with a lower GI have a less dramatic and healthier effect on your blood sugar.

You can reverse prediabetes! It may be a chronic and progressive condition, but it is one that can be affected with treatment.

PCOS and diabetes risk go hand in hand, but you can fight them with easy diet tricks. Make small changes, and you may notice big results!

Insulin resistance occurs when certain cells in your body are no longer fully sensitive or responsive to the effects of insulin leading to other conditions.

The Diabetes Prevention Program is recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an effective way to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes among individuals...

High blood pressure headaches are not only painful, your headache may be your first clue that you have high blood pressure, or hypertension.

November is Diabetes Awareness Month. <strong><em>November, 2018</em></strong>. Will it be the month that saves your life? Will it save your family members and friends?

Effective treatment for most people with prediabetes and weight gain is simple, usually involving no medications: obesity management.

You may notice symptoms such as hunger and thirst before you know that you have diabetes or soon after your diagnosis.

Disease Management Programs are treatments that are offered through devices such as phones, sensors, apps, and computers.

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">But that’s only possible with artificial intelligence and machine learning. So what is AI and why should you care about it for your employees and members?Lark has applied AI and Machine Learning technologies to build a complete chronic condition management solution.</p>

Chronic Disease Management is the single greatest contributor to reductions in healthcare spending by employers, and to employee satisfaction with health benefit offerings.

Can I prevent diabetes if I am prediabetic?" For most people, the answer is a resounding, “Yes!”. Learn how you can prevent type 2 diabetes.

Exercise lowers blood sugar and glycated hemoglobin (A1C) levels to manage diabetes and reduce the risk of complications lower the risk of complications!

The world has gone digital. Are you keeping up? Digital therapeutics are not the <em>next</em> big thing in healthcare. Digital therapeutics are the <em>current </em>big thing in healthcare!

You may not have any signs of high blood pressure, or you could notice hypertension symptoms in your day-to-day activities.

Prediabetes, also known as borderline diabetes, is the stage before Diabetes. It is a condition in which your blood sugar is higher than normal, but not as high as it would be if you had diabetes. If you have prediabetes, you may have no symptoms. However, you are at higher risk for developing diabetes.

You may be wondering what the best diet is if you have been recently diagnosed with high blood pressure. Helping your hypertension through diet is easy!

Your blood sugar, or blood glucose, is an important measure of your health. This is where blood glucose monitoring comes into play to help with diabetes.

Along with losing weight, avoiding the right foods while on a prediabetic diet can help improve your blood sugar control.

The Hgb test is used as a test to diagnose prediabetes and diabetes, and is also used to manage long-term blood sugar for diabetics.

As an employer, are you spending far too much on diabetes? Unless you are offering your employees the opportunity to participate in a Centers for Disease Control and ..

Impaired glucose tolerance is one way of saying that you have prediabetes. It is a condition in which your blood sugar is higher than normal.

Diabetic nerve pain is symptom of diabetic neuropathy, a common complication of diabetes. It can limit your activities and interfere with quality of life.

Blood sugar levels need to be in a normal range for you to be healthy. The ranges of normal levels of blood sugar depend on factors such as what time of day it is and when you last ate.

You may think of a diabetes coach as a health professional that you see in person occasionally, but there are other options.

High blood sugar (blood glucose) can be dangerous. There are several ways to reduce high blood sugar to avoid other complications.

Women with prediabetes are more likely than men to progress to diabetes. Learn the warning signs of diabetes in women, and live a healthier lifestyle!

While symptoms of prediabetes or diabetes in men may be absent or subtle, symptoms of type 2 diabetes can occur.

The list of foods to avoid if you're prediabetic is long: but there are healthy alternatives for all of them so you can enjoy your prediabetes diet!

While diabetes early signs may be absent or subtle, signs of type 2 diabetes can occur very clearly as well.

Prediabetes affects 1 in 3 Americans, but the signs can be hard to spot if you are at risk. Find out in 1 minute with the prediabetes test here.

Prediabetes may have no symptoms, but it is still a serious condition. The prediabetes ICD-10 code can clarify medical care for patients, providers, and insurers, and probably for you.

How can your patients keep track of their daily medications to stay on track? Medication adherence imrproves outcomes across disese states.

Prediabetes means that you are at higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes, but there is more to the story. Prediabetes treatments are possible!

Women with prediabetes are more likely than men to progress to diabetes. Learn the warning signs of diabetes in women, and live a healthier lifestyle!

While symptoms of prediabetes or diabetes in men may be absent or subtle, symptoms of type 2 diabetes can occur.