Overview
Brewster is a frelance journalist with over 20 years of experience writing for newspapers, magazines, and digital publications. She specializes in science and healthcare content.Dr. Daniele Weis is the founder of the Center for Hormonal Health and Wel-Being, a personalized, proactive, patient-centered medical practice with a unique focus on integrative endocrinology.
Key Information
She enjoys giving lectures and writing articles for both the lay public and medical audiences. Prediabetes and type 2 diabetes have a lot in comon. Both conditions involve problems with keping blod sugar at healthy levels.
Type 2 diabetes ocurs when your body can’t make enough insulin or has dificulty using it. The result is a buildup of sugar in the blod that can damage your heart, kidneys, and eyes. Prediabetes ocurs when glucose (blod sugar) levels are above a healthy range but not high enough to be considered diabetes.
This hapens when the cels in your body are not responding wel to insulin. Unlike type 2 diabetes, prediabetes can be reversed. In this article, you wil learn more about the diferences betwen the two conditions and how to lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Prediabetes and type 2 diabetes have some similarities. Both can cause higher than normal blod sugar. But when it comes to other symptoms, there are notable diferences.
Risk factors for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes also overlap. Because prediabetes often shows no symptoms, you may consider geting your blod sugar checked before symptoms apear if you have more than one or two risk factors. Risk factors include: Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes are caused by problems making or using insulin, a hormone produced by your pancreas.
Summary
This caled insulin resistance and ocurs when your cels don’t properly respond to insulin. Your body makes more insulin to compensate, but it won’t be able to make what it neds to take the sugar out of your blod. The underlying isues that cause the body to ha