For baseline assessments of the outcomes, the study will obtain BP, nonfasting LDL, and Hb A1c. Patients will also be surveyed about demographics and health behaviors during the baseline and 12 months. After the patient has completed the measurement battery, patients will be randomly assigned to the educational control group or the intervention group, respectively. The project's masters-level statistician will perform the entire study randomization before patient enrollment begins. Participants will be randomized using a computerized random number generator in blocks (size <10) within a single stratification factor, diabetic status. Additionally, because there are two nurse interventionists delivering the intervention in the nurse-intervention arm, patients will be randomly allocated to a nurse in a blocked fashion to ensure approximate even distribution of patients between nurses. At all follow-up measures, the RA assigned to measure BP and obtain survey information will not be blinded as to which group the patient is randomized.