Prediabetes
November is Diabetes Awareness Month
Are you at risk for prediabetes?
Prediabetes occurs when your blood sugar levels are consistently higher than normal. Because prediabetes doesn't always show signs or symptoms, more than 4 out of 5 of people who have prediabetes don't know they have it. The good news: prediabetes can often be reversed with small healthy changes.
Where you live, work, and the resources available to you, like access nutritious food and quality health care, can affect your risk and how well treatments will work.
Take the one-minute risk test. If your score indicates you might be at risk, work with your health care provider and explore a diabetes prevention lifestyle change program. Typically making a few lifestyle changes can help you lower your blood sugar levels reducing your risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
Don’t wait! Take the test today!
Know the risks
If you have one or more of these characteristics, you may be at higher risk than others for developing prediabetes, and eventually, type 2 diabetes:
- Being overweight
- Being 45 or older
- Having a parent, brother, or sister with type 2 diabetes
- Physically active less than three times per week
- Ever having gestational diabetes or giving birth to a baby who weighed more than 9 pounds
- Having polycystic ovary syndrome
- Having high blood pressure
- Being a man
- Belonging to certain racial or ethnic groups, including African American, Latinx American, American Indian, Pacific Islander, and some Asian American communities
- Experiencing trauma, abuse or neglect during childhood
Worried you may be at risk for prediabetes or type 2 diabetes? Don't wait. Take the one-minute risk test. It's an easy first step to stopping higher than normal blood sugar from damaging your health.
They found out and changed it
Hear from people just like you, who learned about their risk for prediabetes or type 2 diabetes and decided to take action. Visit Take Control of Your Health to find out why joining a lifestyle change program worked for them or visit Your Health with Joan Lunden to see more prediabetes success stories.
Don't go it alone
Making small, positive changes to your everyday habits isn’t always easy, but you don’t have to do it alone. Lifestyle change programs connect you with experienced coaches and people who face similar challenges, giving you guidance and support to build healthy habits. Don’t wait. You really can lower your blood sugar and prevent type 2 diabetes—and there are resources in your community to guide you each step of the way.
Find a Diabetes Prevention Program
Take the next step
The first step to preventing or reversing prediabetes? Getting the facts. Learn about the dangerous myths that make prediabetes seem more harmless than it is, find out what you can do to reduce your risk, and more.
Spread the word
As a local health partner, you can help people understand their risk for prediabetes and expose them to resources that can help them live healthier lives.
Browse our library of materials which can help educate and provide clear next steps.