Prediabetes is defined as having elevated blood sugar levels that aren’t high enough to be called full-blown diabetes, the researchers explained.
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About one-third of those Americans with type 2 diabetes don’t know they have it, and most of those with prediabetes are unaware of their condition, the study authors said. That percentage was higher for Asian-Americans and Latinos at approximately half of all cases.
“The strong positive effect of exercise on the heart is, although completely logical, a message that needs to be communicated to people with type 2 diabetes more clearly”, the researchers suggested.
From 1990 to 2008, there has been a steady increase in the prevalence of diabetes, according to the study.
It is already known that an active lifestyle can better help those with type-2 diabetes and should be complemented with healthy eating habits as well.
A new study in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) is the first to show that high intensity intermittent exercise training improves heart structure and benefits diabetes control in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Considerably, half of Asian-People with diabetes didn’t know that they had it. Hispanics, blacks, and Asian-People had larger charges of diabetes than whites. Most of that is Type 2 diabetes, the kind linked with obesity and inactivity. At the same time, rates of obesity rose as well, and that’s a key risk factor.
Menke and colleagues estimated the prevalence of diabetes (hemoglobin A1c 6.5% or higher) and pre-diabetes (hemoglobin A1c between 5.7% and 6.4%) using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) collected on 2,781 adults in 2011 to 2012 and an additional 23,634 adults from 1988 to 2010.
Researchers have been hopeful in a few of the knowledge they discovered, together with a sign that the prevalence of diabetes has modified little from 2007 to 2012 – suggesting a leveling off of the epidemic.
The report says, “Diabetes prevalence significantly increased over time in every age group, in both sexes, in every racial/ethnic group, by all education levels, and in all poverty income (groups)”. “The data reinforce how important a physically active lifestyle is for people with type 2 diabetes”.
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“Although progress has been made, expanded and sustained efforts will be needed to address these pressing health problems.”
