For a decade, Jane Hiske lived in denial of her diabetes diagnosis.
“I watched my own brother start out with just a sore on his foot. He had to have part of his foot taken off. Then the toes had to come off with another surgery. They ended up taking him at the knee. That’s when it hit me, this is serious."
Despite nationwide improvements in cardiovascular disease mortality and morbidity, deaths among adults with type 2 diabetes are two to four times higher than those without the disease. A key contributor to these outcomes is patients not taking their medication as recommended.