Prediabetes - your chance to prevent type 2 diabetes

What is Prediabetes?

Prediabetes is a significant fitness condition in which blood sugar levels that are better than normal, but no longer high enough, can be recognized as type 2 diabetes. About 88 million American adults—more than 1 in three—have prediabetes. More than 84% of people with prediabetes do not recognize that they have it.

Prediabetes puts you at an accelerated risk of developing type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke. The good news is that when you have prediabetes, the CDC-led National Diabetes Prevention Program allows you to make lifestyle changes to protect you or avert type 2 diabetes and other serious fitness problems.

What is the cause of prediabetes?

Insulin is a hormone made by your pancreas that acts like a key to allow blood sugar to be used as energy in cells. If you have prediabetes, the cells in your frame don't usually respond to insulin. Your pancreas makes extra insulin to try to get the cells to respond. Eventually, your pancreas can't keep up, and your blood sugar rises, leading to the degree of prediabetes -- and type 2 diabetes -- down the road.

Signs and Symptoms

You can have prediabetes for years but no obvious symptoms, so it often goes undetected until serious fitness problems such as type 2 diabetes develop. It's important to talk to your doctor about getting your blood sugar tested when you have any risk factors for prediabetes, including:

• Becoming fat

• be forty-five years of age or older

• Having Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

• a parent, brother, or sister with type 2 diabetes

• Being physically active less than three times per week

• Ever having gestational diabetes (diabetes at any stage of pregnancy) or giving birth to a baby weighing more than nine kilos

Race and ethnicity are also a factor: African Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, American Indians, Pacific Islanders, and some Asian Americans are at better risk.

Simple Blood Sugar Test

You can do a simple blood sugar test to find out when you have prediabetes. Ask your doctor if you should be tested.

Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes

If you have prediabetes, losing a small amount of weight and engaging in daily physical activity can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes if you are obese. A small amount of weight loss is about 5% to 7% of your frame weight, just 10 to fourteen kilos for a 200-pound person.

At least one hundred and fifty minutes of brisk walking or a similar hobby every week as a regular physical hobby. That is, only half an hour a day, 5 days a week.

A lifestyle alternative software provided through the CDC-led National Diabetes Prevention Program allows you to modify them—and cause them to stick. Through the software, you can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by using 58% (71% in case you are over 60 years of age). Highlights include:

• Working with the educated to make realistic, sustainable lifestyle modifications.

• Finding a way to eat healthier and upload additional physical hobbies into your day.

• Finding ways to manage stress, stay motivated, and eliminate problems that can slow your progress.

• Getting help from humans with comparable dreams and challenges.

Ask your doctor or nurse if the CDC-diagnostics National Diabetes Prevention Program is provided for your network or find one here. The happy time to protect you from type 2 diabetes is now.