kcredden
November 4th, 2007, 09:32 AM
CNN Writes:
(Parenting.com) -- Did you know that most people who develop type II diabetes have a potentially dangerous condition called prediabetes for five to 10 years before their diagnosis?
Who is at risk: Anyone who's overweight and has a family history of diabetes, high blood pressure, or low HDL ("good") cholesterol and high triglycerides. Also, moms who've had gestational diabetes, are overweight, or have delivered an infant weighing more than nine pounds are especially prone to developing prediabetes.
If you have any of these risk factors, get your blood glucose level tested, and ask your doctor how often you should have follow-up screenings, advises Florence Brown, M.D., codirector of the diabetes and pregnancy program at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
more here (http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/10/17/diabetes.parenting/index.html)
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Don't be like me, and get T2 before your RXed with pre. Get yourself checked. If you can't afford to see a doctor yet, and you have any of the risk factors above assume you have diabeties and start what they recommend; diet, exercise. At least that won't hurt you in the long run.
- Kc
(Parenting.com) -- Did you know that most people who develop type II diabetes have a potentially dangerous condition called prediabetes for five to 10 years before their diagnosis?
Who is at risk: Anyone who's overweight and has a family history of diabetes, high blood pressure, or low HDL ("good") cholesterol and high triglycerides. Also, moms who've had gestational diabetes, are overweight, or have delivered an infant weighing more than nine pounds are especially prone to developing prediabetes.
If you have any of these risk factors, get your blood glucose level tested, and ask your doctor how often you should have follow-up screenings, advises Florence Brown, M.D., codirector of the diabetes and pregnancy program at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
more here (http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/10/17/diabetes.parenting/index.html)
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Don't be like me, and get T2 before your RXed with pre. Get yourself checked. If you can't afford to see a doctor yet, and you have any of the risk factors above assume you have diabeties and start what they recommend; diet, exercise. At least that won't hurt you in the long run.
- Kc