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Walgreen’s is joining efforts to stem the nation’s diabetes epidemic by offering free blood sugar testing.<\/p>\nWalgreen’s is joining efforts to stem the nation’s diabetes epidemic by offering free blood sugar testing.<\/p>\n
The Deerfield-based chain’s 24-hour stores and clinics will\u00a0 offer the tests Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. People aged 18 and\u00a0 older are eligible.<\/p>\n
Also, free diabetes tests will be available at Walgreen’s stores in thousands of communities nationwide through Feb. 18. <\/span><\/p>\n The announcement came Thursday on Oprah Winfrey’s show, as part of her pitch to attack the epidemic.<\/p>\n Nearly 24 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million or so are undiagnosed.<\/p>\n Prevalence has increased dramatically over the past decade, partly because the most common type of diabetes is linked with obesity.<\/p>\n Read the original article from FOX Chicago News<\/a>.<\/p>\n Walgreen’s is joining efforts to stem the nation’s diabetes epidemic by offering free blood sugar testing. The Deerfield-based chain’s 24-hour stores and clinics will\u00a0 offer the tests Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. People aged 18 and\u00a0 older are eligible. Also, free diabetes tests will be available at Walgreen’s stores in thousands of communities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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