- Diabetes is one of the leading causes of disability and death in the United States
- It can cause blindness, nerve damage, kidney damage, and other health conditions if not kept under control.
- The good news is that people who are at a high risk for type 2 diabetes can lower their risk by more than half if they make healthy changes. They can include:
- Eating healthy
- Increasing physical activity
- Losing weight
- Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have “prediabetes.”
- Prediabetes is when blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed with diabetes.
- If you have prediabetes, you should be checked for type 2 diabetes every one to two years.