Risk of diabetes starts long before actual diagnosis

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Current estimates suggest 8.8% of the global population has diabetes; 95% of cases are type 2 diabetes. This comes at an estimated cost of $1.3 trillion. A number that high is almost incomprehensible in terms of what it means to individual societies, but it is clear we need better preventive strategies to combat this global epidemic. A new study out of Japan suggests we can determine who is more likely to develop type 2 diabetes ten years before the actual diagnosis. They followed over 27,000 people for up to eleven years and compared their blood glucose (BG) levels and insulin sensitivity (IS) scores. Those who eventually developed diabetes showed changes in their BG and IS ten years prior, with a gradual worsening until one year prior to the diagnosis at which point there was a sharp rise in BG and decline in IS. Journal of the Endocrine Society: Type 2 diabetes: When does it start? On the one hand, this isn’t all that surprising. We should all know that someone doesn’t...
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