Prediabetes: A growing concern you can be a control with a timely lifestyle changes.
Prediabetes should be an a alarm for a people to take a notice of the food they eat and the exercise routine they are follow.
As a diabetes cases continue to the rise across in the world, people are also a becoming increasingly susceptible to the prediabetes.
What is a prediabetes?
Prediabetes is a condition before diabetes, and slowly progresses to the clinical diabetes mellifluous if it is not a checked or a controlled at the right time.
When a fasting blood glucose in an a individual is a greater than 100 mg/d l and less than 126 mg/d l, it is known as a impaired fasting glucose(I F G). When post postprandial sugars after a 75 gram of the glucose load is a greater than 140 mg/d l and less than 200 mg/d l, it is known as a impaired glucose tolerance(I G T). Both I F G and I G T are known as a prediabetes.
Nowadays, glycosylated hemoglobin (otherwise known as a H b A 1 C) level between 5.7 percent to the 6.4 percent is also taken as a prediabetes or a borderline diabetes.
Individuals in the prediabetes state have a 3.6-8.7 percent chance of the progressing to the frank diabetes with a each passing year. All the cardiovascular adverse events increases steadily in the prediabetes range of the blood glucose and so are the chances of the heart attack. But fortunately in the prediabetes state is a reversible or at the least checked if intervened are properly.
Prediabetes diagnosis
Since in the condition is a clinically asymptomatic, it needs regular screening of the people who are at the maximum risk. Testing should be done for a people of the more than 45 years of the age . People of the any age who are overweight or a obese with any of the additional risk of the factors such as a physical inactivity, family history of the diabetes, high-risk ethnic population, women who are delivered a baby weighing >9 lb, hypertension, low good cholesterol (H D L cholesterol level <35 mg/d l) and/or a high triglyceride level >250 mg/d l, should also be a screened.
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Tips to the manage prediabetes
A healthy lifestyle, which are includes healthy food, regular exercise and maintenance of the ideal body weight can be reverse or at the least halt the progression of this condition to the overt diabetes.
In a very high risk patients, medication can also be a advised, but it should be a taken only when prescribed by your doctor.
1. Exercise
Moderate physical activity of a minimum of the 150 minutes in a week can be reduce progression to the frank diabetes. So, brisk walking of the 20-30 minutes a day is strongly recommended for a people with in this condition.
2. Food
Some tips on food are regular and moderate diet low in a calories and low in a fat. But some of the useful tips are avoidance of the junk foods , sweets, bakery products, nuts, ghee or a butter, red meat, all sweetened aerated beverages and fresh fruit juices. Food should be a rich in a dietary fibers like- fresh fruits, salads, vegetables, sprouts. Beverages like a clear vegetable soups, tender coconut water, skimmed buttermilk, rasam or a red tea can be a taken any time of the day without a adding any calories.
