For a disease that increases the risk of heart disease and stroke 2 to 4-fold, accounts for 12,000 to 24,000 new cases of blindness and 82,000 leg amputations in the US each year, leads to end-stage kidney disease forcing over 150,000 Americans to depend on chronic dialysis, causes impaired sensation or pain in the feet or hands, slowed digestion of food in the stomach, carpal tunnel syndrome, and a host other medical problems, diabetes is probably the number one contender on the list of the most dreadful chronic diseases out there. And it’s the kind of disease you don’t want to discover you have it years after it has silently wrought havoc in your system. This is why I highly recommend you continue to read, as this article offers a free tool that estimates your 8-year risk of type II diabetes with high accuracy, using simple risk factors and labs you can obtain from a single visit to your physician.