Progressive type of Prediabetes--often a precursor of type 2 diabetes-can to conceal actual diabetes symptoms and to prevent, that early detection. It is therefore especially important for people, who have some diabetes risk factors, symptoms note and watch for her performance.
The appearance of one of these symptoms is to see a good reason to a healthcare professional.
Diabetes, particularly type 2, has a hereditary component. If a person with diabetes has a family member with the disease, this person has an increased chance to develop. Other important risk factors are smoking, overweight or inactive or high cholesterol or high blood pressure. Old, ethnic affiliation (Caucasian for type 1 and African, Asian, Hispanic, Native American or Pacific Islander descent for type 2), history of gestational diabetes and prediabetes are also risk factors.Obesity is one of the most striking correlates of diabetes. The national institutes of health (NIH) reports that approximately 80% of people are overweight or obese type 2 diabetes. Fortunately, it needs to reduce to improve the risk for diabetes or health not dramatic weight loss. If someone only 5% of their weight lose, make it a significant difference in reducing the risk of diabetes. Weight to lose can also help delay or prevent that diabetes complications, and facilitate glucose control in type 2 diabetes.
If anyone has any of the risk factors for diabetes, prediabetes test is recommended. The most important tests are plasma glucose test and the oral glucose tolerance test the fast, although also a random plasma glucose test can be useful and it is to do the simplest. The NIH and the American Diabetes Association suggest that people with risk factors for diabetes often shown every two years should be so.To do the most important thing for a person with diabetes team is concrete decisions on diet and exercise with the help of its health care, useful. People with diabetes should be proactive and questions you their blood glucose levels and the risk factors with diabetes their health care providers.
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