All You Should Know About Prediabetes In Older Adults

Prediabetes is a health condition that happens before you develop type 2 diabetes. It means that your blood sugar is higher than normal, but not yet high enough for your doctor to diagnose diabetes.

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. Approximately 96 million American adults—more than 1 in 3—have prediabetes. 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.

The good news is that if you have prediabetes, the National Diabetes Prevention Programme can help you make lifestyle changes to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes and other serious health problems.

Insulin is a hormone made by your pancreas that acts like a key to let blood sugar into cells for use as energy. If you have prediabetes, the cells in your body don’t respond normally to insulin. Your pancreas makes more insulin to try to get cells to respond. Eventually your pancreas can’t keep up, and your blood sugar rises, setting the stage for it—and type 2 diabetes down the road.

Prediabetes can exist for years with no obvious symptoms, so it often goes undetected until serious health problems such as type 2 diabetes manifest. If you have any of the risk factors for it, such as being overweight, being 45 years or older, or having relatives with type 2 diabetes, you should talk to your doctor about getting your blood sugar tested.

Being physically active less than three times per week, having gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy), having a baby weighing more than nine pounds, and having polycystic ovary syndrome are all risk factors for it.

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

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