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+# 🧠 Diabetes Risk Calculator - Backend (Flask API)
+
+A Flask-powered REST API that predicts the likelihood of diabetes using a machine learning model trained on clinical data.
+
+## 🛠️ Tech Stack
+
+- Python (Flask, Pandas, scikit-learn)
+- Machine Learning (Logistic Regression)
+- REST API with JSON
+
+## 🚀 How to Run
+
+```bash
+cd diabetes-api
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+python app.py