Questions below are based on the following passage on Prediabetes. About 60 million people in the United States have prediabetes. That means if you are in a room with three other adult U.S. citizens, one of you will probably have prediabetes, and chances are that person won’t know it. The purpose of this book is to radically change that situation. Anyone who reads this book will know whether he or she has prediabetes. Anyone who follows the recommendations in this book will not proceed to diabetes and will probably return to normal health. This book will not make you younger, but it... Show more Questions below are based on the following passage on Prediabetes. About 60 million people in the United States have prediabetes. That means if you are in a room with three other adult U.S. citizens, one of you will probably have prediabetes, and chances are that person won’t know it. The purpose of this book is to radically change that situation. Anyone who reads this book will know whether he or she has prediabetes. Anyone who follows the recommendations in this book will not proceed to diabetes and will probably return to normal health. This book will not make you younger, but it will help you continue to get older. Diagnosing prediabetes is crucial because prediabetes is the critical step before developing diabetes. As you find out in this book, diabetes is associated with complications that may cause considerable physical and mental discomfort at best and be life-threatening at worst. So you don’t want to go there. Even if you go on to develop diabetes, all is not lost. You can use the suggestions found here to avoid further complications. You can’t get rid of the diagnosis, but you can get rid of the problems. In this chapter, you discover how to differentiate among three physical states: normal health, prediabetes, and diabetes. I explain that prediabetes is a recent phenomenon, which parallels the epidemic of obesity and lack of exercise in the United States and around the world. Next, you discover who is affected by prediabetes and which groups of people are at the highest risk. I also touch on special considerations for children and the elderly at risk for prediabetes. Finally, I focus on the costs of prediabetes, which are not only monetary. I explain that even though prediabetes is often considered a benign condition and not a disease, changes occur in the body of a person with prediabetes that may not be benign after all. Jane Johnson is a 48-year-old woman. She is postmenopausal and has gained about 15 pounds since her twenties, when her weight was normal. She complains of some fatigue. She goes to Dr. Sugarfeld, who discovers that Jane has family members with diabetes. Jane mentions that she used to be physically active but doesn’t have the time to do much exercise these days. A physical examination reveals only that Jane is overweight and has mild high blood pressure, so Dr. Sugarfeld sends her for blood tests. One of the blood tests the doctor orders is called a fasting blood glucose, and it discovers the level of sugar in someone’s blood in the morning after that person has fasted through the night. When Jane returns a week later, Dr. Sugarfeld informs her that her fasting blood glucose was 114 mg/dl (6.3 mmol/L). The doctor asks Jane to have one more fasting blood glucose test. This value is 108 mg/dl (6 mmol/L). Dr Sugarfeld informs Jane that she has prediabetes. This anecdote describes one of the most common ways that prediabetes is discovered. Another common occurrence is simply the discovery that the blood glucose — the amount of sugar in the blood — is higher than it should be in a routine blood test. The diagnosis of prediabetes is made the same way that a diagnosis of diabetes is made: by doing a blood glucose test in the laboratory. Show less
Questions below are based on the following passage on Prediabetes. About 60 million people in the United States have prediabetes. That means if you are in a room with three other adult U.S. citizens, one of you will probably have prediabetes, and chances are that person won’t know it. The purpose of this book is to radically change that situation. Anyone who reads this book will know whether he or she has prediabetes. Anyone who follows the recommendations in this book will not proceed to diabetes and will probably return to normal health. This book will not make you younger, but it will help you continue to get older. Diagnosing prediabetes is crucial because prediabetes is the critical step before developing diabetes. As you find out in this book, diabetes is associated with complications that may cause considerable physical and mental discomfort at best and be life-threatening at worst. So you don’t want to go there. Even if you go on to develop diabetes, all is not lost. You can use the suggestions found here to avoid further complications. You can’t get rid of the diagnosis, but you can get rid of the problems. In this chapter, you discover how to differentiate among three physical states: normal health, prediabetes, and diabetes. I explain that prediabetes is a recent phenomenon, which parallels the epidemic of obesity and lack of exercise in the United States and around the world. Next, you discover who is affected by prediabetes and which groups of people are at the highest risk. I also touch on special considerations for children and the elderly at risk for prediabetes. Finally, I focus on the costs of prediabetes, which are not only monetary. I explain that even though prediabetes is often considered a benign condition and not a disease, changes occur in the body of a person with prediabetes that may not be benign after all. Jane Johnson is a 48-year-old woman. She is postmenopausal and has gained about 15 pounds since her twenties, when her weight was normal. She complains of some fatigue. She goes to Dr. Sugarfeld, who discovers that Jane has family members with diabetes. Jane mentions that she used to be physically active but doesn’t have the time to do much exercise these days. A physical examination reveals only that Jane is overweight and has mild high blood pressure, so Dr. Sugarfeld sends her for blood tests. One of the blood tests the doctor orders is called a fasting blood glucose, and it discovers the level of sugar in someone’s blood in the morning after that person has fasted through the night. When Jane returns a week later, Dr. Sugarfeld informs her that her fasting blood glucose was 114 mg/dl (6.3 mmol/L). The doctor asks Jane to have one more fasting blood glucose test. This value is 108 mg/dl (6 mmol/L). Dr Sugarfeld informs Jane that she has prediabetes. This anecdote describes one of the most common ways that prediabetes is discovered. Another common occurrence is simply the discovery that the blood glucose — the amount of sugar in the blood — is higher than it should be in a routine blood test. The diagnosis of prediabetes is made the same way that a diagnosis of diabetes is made: by doing a blood glucose test in the laboratory.
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