{"id":36245,"date":"2025-11-03T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/36245\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:52:08","slug":"free-diabetes-tests-offered-to-blood-donors-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/36245\/","title":{"rendered":"Free diabetes tests offered to blood donors this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-12-at-2.09.35-PM.png?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2024-07-12-at-2.09.35-PM.png\" alt=\"San Diego Blood Bank employees help donate blood.\" class=\"wp-image-279254\"  \/><\/a>San Diego Blood Bank employees help donate blood. (File photo courtesy San Diego Blood Bank)<\/p>\n<p>In recognition of <a href=\"https:\/\/diabetes.org\/adm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Diabetes Awareness Month<\/a>, anyone who donates blood at the San Diego Blood Bank throughout November will receive a free <a href=\"https:\/\/diabetes.org\/about-diabetes\/a1c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A1C test<\/a>, which can detect diabetes early.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/diabetes.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Diabetes Association<\/a>, Type 1 diabetes can develop in anyone at any age, and many people with Type 2 diabetes are a normal weight or only moderately overweight, making early testing important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to expand our donor wellness benefits to include A1C testing this November,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegobloodbank.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Blood Bank<\/a> chief executive officer Douglas Morton. \u201cOur donors save lives every day, and now they\u2019ll gain valuable insights into their own health. It\u2019s one more way to give back \u2013 to your community and yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To donate blood, participants must be at least 17 years old, weigh a minimum of 110 pounds and be in general good health. Appointments and additional information are available <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegobloodbank.org\/a1c-testing-with-your-blood-donation-what-you-need-to-know\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Walk-ins are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Blood Bank employees help donate blood. (File photo courtesy San Diego Blood Bank) In recognition of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[25500,25501,8430,25502,25503,74,25504,76,75],"class_list":["post-36245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-american-diabetes-association","tag-blood-donations","tag-diabetes","tag-free-a1c-test","tag-national-diabetes-awareness-month","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-blood-bank","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}