• 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.

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