Several methods contribute to preventing or delaying prediabetes from developing into type 2 diabetes

The article is professionally consulted by Master, Doctor Vu Thi Duyen - Department of Medical Examination & Internal Medicine - Vinmec Hai Phong International General Hospital

If pre-diabetes is detected early and treated with good treatment and management, it greatly limits the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. If you are diagnosed with pre-diabetes, you need to change. lifestyle, maintain a healthy diet combined with regular exercise as soon as possible.

Pre-diabetes is a condition in which blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes (currently based on fasting blood glucose > 5.6 mmol/l and HbA1C > 5, 7%). Pre-diabetes, without early intervention to change the appropriate diet and lifestyle, has a very high risk of progressing to type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and strokes, and blindness.

Pre-diabetes can occur for many years without any obvious symptoms, it is discovered incidentally during a routine physical examination or accidentally treated for another disease. Because of this, it is often undetected until serious health problems appear. Therefore, you should have regular blood sugar testing if you have the following high risk factors:
Overweight, obese. 45 years old and up. Polycystic Ovary. Having cardiovascular disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia. Having a close relative with type 2 diabetes (natural parents, siblings). Physical activity less than 3 times a week. Have had gestational diabetes or had a baby weighing more than 4kg.

Although people with prediabetes already have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke than the general population, they still do not have to manage the serious health problems associated with diabetes.
When pre-diabetes has turned to type 2 diabetes, the patient will have a higher risk of complications such as: kidney failure, blindness, nerve damage (leading to toe amputation, etc.) feet or legs), depression, cardiovascular disease such as heart attack. All these complications occur will greatly reduce the patient's quality of life and the patient has to spend a lot of health care costs for himself and a burden on his family and society.

When you have pre-diabetes, you have two options for the treatment.
One is indifference to pre-diabetes progressing to type 2 diabetes, which means letting go of how much you want to develop. Two is active early intervention to reverse the disease from becoming type 2 diabetes with appropriate measures: Actively lose weight if overweight, regular physical activity to reduce the risk of diabetes . Lose weight at a moderate level, from 5 - 7% of body weight. Meanwhile, the recommended physical activity is walking briskly for at least 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Must have a healthy diet that does not smoke, does not drink alcohol, eat less glucid, reduce sweeteners, increase fiber and vitamins. In addition, people with pre-diabetes also need to participate in anti-diabetes activities to receive help such as quarterly:
Have people to consult and talk to help make long-term lifestyle changes . Explore healthy foods and plenty of physical activity. Find ways to reduce stress, stay motivated, and solve life's problems. Diabetes is a dangerous disease and can leave many complications, so when there is a risk of diabetes, there are signs of pre-diabetes, you need to change your lifestyle, maintain an appropriate diet. Regular health check-ups to detect disease status, early appropriate treatment regimen.
Currently, at Vinmec International General Hospital, we are implementing a screening package for diabetes and dyslipidemia to help detect pre-diabetes early, accurately classify diabetes type, and develop a regimen nutrition, monitoring to minimize the risks and complications caused by diabetes.
All examination and screening procedures are performed by well-trained, experienced and specialized endocrinologists, which will bring optimal treatment effects to customers.

References: cdc.gov