If you have prediabetes, losing a small amount of weight if you’re overweight and getting regular physical activity can lower your risk for developing type 2 diabetes. You can get a simple blood sugar test to find out if you have prediabetes. Race and ethnicity are also a factor: African Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, American Indians, Pacific Islanders, and some Asian Americans are at higher risk. Ever having gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy) or giving birth to a baby who weighed more than 9 pounds.Being physically active less than 3 times a week.Having a parent, brother, or sister with type 2 diabetes.The good news: prediabetes can be reversed.
It’s important to talk to your doctor about getting your blood sugar tested if you have any of the risk factors for prediabetes, which include: You can have prediabetes for years but have no clear symptoms, so it often goes undetected until serious health problems such as type 2 diabetes show up. Eventually your pancreas can’t keep up, and your blood sugar rises, setting the stage for prediabetes-and type 2 diabetes down the road. Your pancreas makes more insulin to try to get cells to respond. If you have prediabetes, the cells in your body don’t respond normally to insulin. Insulin is a hormone made by your pancreas that acts like a key to let blood sugar into cells for use as energy. The good news is that if you have prediabetes, the CDC-led National Diabetes Prevention Program can help you make lifestyle changes to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes and other serious health problems.
Of those with prediabetes, more than 80% don’t know they have it. Prediabetes puts you at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Approximately 96 million American adults-more than 1 in 3-have prediabetes. Prediabetes is a serious health condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough yet to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes.
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