You are African American, Hispanic, American Indian or Asian American.You’ve had gestational diabetes during pregnancy.You’re physically active less than 3 times per week.You have a family history of Type 2 diabetes.That’s because it usually doesn’t have symptoms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says about 90% of people with prediabetes don’t know they have it. “Prediabetes is more common than overt diabetes, if you have prediabetes, you are at increased risk for heart disease and strokes in addition to the risk of developing overt diabetes,” Dr. Even before an adult is diagnosed with diabetes, prediabetes can start to have negative effects on the body. This is the concern of healthcare providers across the country, so much so that some have labeled prediabetes as “an epidemic that’s out of control.” There’s good reason to take prediabetes seriously. “The large number of adults who already have prediabetes indicates millions of people will develop diabetes, which is a disease with many serious complications,” Dr. Prediabetes is a condition where blood sugar levels aren’t high enough to diagnose Type 2 diabetes, but without change, will usually develop into diabetes within 10 years. UnityPoint Diabetologist, David Trachtenbarg, MD, talks about how to prevent prediabetes from becoming diabetes. One-third of United States adults have prediabetes, but does that really matter? After all, these adults aren’t diabetic yet, so the health risk isn’t actually there, right? Wrong.

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