MARQUETTE — Could you be one of the 97,000 Yoopers who has diabetes or prediabetes and doesn’t know it?

November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and Upper Peninsula Lions Club members will be out in the community this month, helping people find out if they are at high risk for having diabetes or prediabetes.

An estimated 1 out of 3 adults and 50% of seniors have prediabetes and 90% don’t even know they have a health problem that puts them on the path to getting type 2 diabetes.

In the U.P., about 90,000 people don’t know they have prediabetes. Another 7,000 people are walking around with type 2 diabetes and don’t know it.

Stop by one of these locations this month and take the paper diabetes/prediabetes quiz:

≤Friday – noon to 2 p.m. Marquette Senior Center

≤ Nov. 19 – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Escanaba Senior Center

≤ Nov. 20 – 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Gwinn Senior Center

≤ Nov. 26 – 9 a.m. to noon St. Thomas Church in Escanaba and 1-3 p.m. Gladstone Senior Center

Gary Perala, Lions Defense against Diabetes Chair for the U.P., also will be on hand to share info about other diabetes care and prevention programs that the Lions are helping to sponsor in the area with the U.P. Diabetes Outreach Network and other local community agencies.

Those who cannot attend one of the screenings can go to DoIHavePrediabetes.org to take the online quiz and talk to a doctor or provider about getting tested for prediabetes and diabetes: a simple, inexpensive blood test is all one needs.