Do you have Prediabetes?

Before most people develop diabetes declared, it is likely that they suffer from pre-diabetes, a condition in which the blood is higher than normal, but not so high that an individual is considered diabetic sugar. People with pre-diabetes are at increased risk of heart disease and about 65 percent of prediabetics go to develop type 2 diabetes. The problem is that very few people know they have it, according to a new study by the Government published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Details: The researchers analyzed data from 1,402 adults over 20 who had participated in the centres for the Control of diseases and prevention 2005-2006 national health and nutrition examination survey. The study involved physical exams, as well as interviews House, during which the participants were asked if he had ever said by a health care professional that they had diabetes. You were also asked if they had participated in healthy behaviors, such as trying to lose weight, consumption of calories from the Court, or increase your exercise levels. The researchers found 29.6 percent of U.S. adults had pre-diabetes that year, but only 7.3 percent had told a doctor that they had. People with pre-diabetes (if you knew or not) were more likely than older men, and a third of the them had such by their doctors to lose weight or cutting calories from your diet. Another one-third had said to increase their levels of physical activity. People with pre-diabetes were also more likely to be in groups at high risk for diabetes, which means that it has had a genetic history of the disease or they had physical problems, such as high cholesterol, which put at higher risk.

What it means: Many people in this country are in the early stages of development of diabetes and not know it. "We know that healthy behaviors such as moderate exercise or a very small amount of weight loss associated to delay or prevent diabetes altogether," says Christine Tobin, RN, President of health and education for the American Diabetes Association. "There is something that people can do about it". But not is whether do not know they have the condition, first.

Tobin believed that lack of awareness has to do with our health system oriented to the treatment (as opposed to prevention-oriented), as well as unwillingness of patients to follow the doctor's orders, even when doctors suggest that they come out and do more exercise or eat healthier. But, he says, for doctors and patients, pre-diabetes prevention means that they will not have the added expense of medications, frequent blood tests and frequent visits to the doctor. "It generally attracts a lot of people."

If you fall into a group of diabetes risk, take some steps to find out if you have pre-diabetes and to avoid that they become full-fledged diabetes:

• Checked. People with pre-diabetes do not suffer from any obvious physical symptoms of the disorder, Tobin said, and is the only way to determine if you have it with a glucose tolerance test. The most accurate test is a test of oral glucose tolerance, which is used less frequently than the tolerance of fasting glucose, less accurate and less expensive test. You can also take a test online to assess your risk of diabetes.

• Get the doctor. In order to take the test, you have to see your doctor regularly. The tests are usually performed during an annual physical, but a feature among the patients in this study who had pre-diabetes is that 17 percent had not been a doctor in the previous year. If the economy has not left you without health insurance, read our article on search free or low-cost health services.

• Do not live in denial. People at high risk for diabetes if you have prediabetes or not, tend to be in denial about it, Tobin said. But she reiterated, "there is something that you can do about it and really fantastic results." If you are genetically predisposed to diabetes or your doctor has suggested that it is at risk, meet with a nutritionist who can help you find the best foods to treat diabetes and start walking 30 minutes every day. Fruits, vegetables, and exercise no one never landed in the hospital!