Posted on 07/06/2019 1:26:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Researchers followed 2,575 men and women aged 60 and older without diabetes for up to 12 years. At the start of the study, 918 people, or 36 per cent of the group, did have higher-than-normal blood sugar levels that were still below the threshold for diabetes.
Only 119 people, 13 per cent of those who started out with elevated blood sugar, went on to develop diabetes. Another 204, or 22 per cent, had blood sugar levels drop enough to no longer be considered prediabetic.
Worldwide, about 352 million adults have elevated blood sugar that's not high enough to warrant a diabetes diagnosis, the study team notes in the Journal of Internal Medicine. By 2045, that's projected to rise to 587 million, or 8.3 per cent of adults worldwide.
People in the study with prediabetes were more likely to return to healthy blood sugar levels if they lost weight, were free of heart disease and had low blood pressure.
Obese adults with prediabetes were more likely to progress to full-blown diabetes.
The study wasn't designed to determine why people with prediabetes might progress to full-blown disease or return to healthy blood sugar levels.
One limitation of the study is that it had too few people with prediabetes to draw broad conclusions about how the condition might progress for millions of people worldwide. Researchers also lacked data on what lifestyle changes, such as shifts in eating or exercise habits, people might have used to try to reverse prediabetes.
"Larger studies will be needed to confirm these findings, and more treatment and lifestyle information would be needed to better understand why less people became diabetic than anticipated," said Dr R Brandon Stacey of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...
Bookmark
They must mostly live in the US NorthEast because EVERY senior I know in NY, CT, PA and WV has been diagnosed as pre-diabetic.
Having exhausted the market for diabetics, the CDC and Big Pharma are partnering to expand the number of folks who need their meds. I may be cynical but prove me wrong.
Prediabetes is still highly reversible, it only seems to persist because of reduced physical activity and insufficient concern with maintaining a diet relatively free of high-glycemic foods (white starch,white sugar), and including a higher-than-usual proportion of polyunsaturated fats (olive oil, for one) and balanced proteins.
Even modest weight loss and moderate exercise can reduce the HbA1c level down in the 5-6% level.
Eat mor chikin. On rye bread.
The greatest curse of diabetes is the likelihood of contracting crippling peripheral neuropathy. Reversing diabetes does not necessarily reverse neuropathy. So far, there is no known cure for this crippling disease.
The greatest curse of diabetes is the likelihood of contracting crippling peripheral neuropathy. Reversing diabetes does not necessarily reverse neuropathy. So far, there is no known cure for this crippling disease. Plenty of snakeoil merchants associated with the many “neuropathy centers” though.
Just like they did on BP.
Yeah, wait til they $tart recommending prophylactic chemotherapy!
You can also develope neuropathy without diabetes. I developed it eight years ago. It’s called Idiopathic Peripheral Neuropathy. They don’t know what causes it. It’s terrible and debilating. There isn’t any medication or treatment to even help with the problems it causes.I agree with you it is a curse!
Thanks to the downgrading of blood sugar from 120 to 90s, half the country was converted to pre-diabetic.
On my last blood test, they put my A1c glucose at 5.8.
My doctor freaked out and gave me a presciption for MetFormin.
I looked up the score on WebMD. Below 6.5 is normal, 6.5-8.0 is prediabetes and over 8 is diabetes.
I plan on tossing the pills.
What are they teaching young doctors now? They seem to panic on everything.
It is a Pharma racket-always has been, according to my neighbor who was a Pharma rep for 40 years-he says the goal is to scare or entice every person onto 1 med-which will produce sied effects so they need another med, which produces more side effects, etc, etc-so you end up on 7 or 8 meds and the side effects eventually kill you-that neighbor is also a natural living type-he never touches any of those drugs he sells to the docs at all-that tells me all I need to know about meds...
If you eat the paleo diet, eat only fresh and unprocessed food, do a job that requires physical work and/or work out, you will stay healthy and fit, slender and keep your strength and muscle mass-My family told me there was a reason we kids were being raised on an isolated, self-sufficient ranch eating homegrown meat, dairy, veggies and fruit-no white bread-and not much whole grain-brown rice only and no white sugar, candy, sodas, etc.
We also avoided all drugs in favor of herbal/natural remedies-we thought we were being tortured as kids because we didn’t get to eat sugar and carb stuffed processed food-now we are grateful not to have allergies, diabetes, constant colds/flu-and we still just say no thanks to drugs, and do the natural thing. I still weigh what I did when I was 17 and I do construction work. No one in my family is obese and no one has diabetes-no one takes any drugs/meds either-why invite an unnatural substance into a healthy, drug free body? I’ll live happily till God says my number is up...
It is all about the $$$$$ to big pharma and the docs-my neighbor who is a pharma rep told me how it works-he jokingly calls himself a legal drug dealer...
Whatever, they can kiss my beautress. My numbers are 146/96. If I’m higher than that, I’ll take my meds, if lower, no dice. Two reasons, I don’t want my body getting used to low blood pressure because that will cause my arteries to soften up a bit to match (and, I don’t care if people say that’s BS, these clowns still haven’t figured out that carbs cause diabetes...so why the hell should I take them seriously regarding blood pressure). Second, a while ago, probably 15 years, there was a 60 Minutes report on a huge study of people in Sweden (something like 20,000 people), I think they were nurses, and they were followed and tracked for 20 or 30 years. Guess what, the people who lived longest had the highest blood pressure (relatively speaking), those with low blood pressure dropped dead early. No theories were proposed, but results are results.
“Thanks to the downgrading of blood sugar from 120 to 90s, half the country was converted to pre-diabetic.”
Pretty nice when you can change the rules in mid-stream to bring in more money. I wish I could do that in my job.
There was an article on Freepers just a few days ago about statins causing diabetes. I MO many of the medicines that are dispensed to us increase
Blood sugar. Read carefully the side effects of each med prescription you take daily.
My doctor has been amazed about that for years. He thinks I am a freak. Well, I suspect I am a freak, but not for that reason.
Does that cause double posting? ;-D
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.