Sentences with phrase «because prediabetes»

That's in part because prediabetes and diabetes are associated with the growing obesity rate worldwide, which has been called a «global epidemic» by the World Health Organization.

Because prediabetes is a precursor to diabetes, programs to help modify and reduce risks among this population are urgently needed.

«This is important because prediabetes is a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease.»

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Most people are unaware they have prediabetes especially because there are often no discernible symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«This is significant because only some individuals with obesity develop prediabetes.

In prediabetes or diabetic conditions, the serum IAPP levels may be substantially higher because insulin resistance promotes greater expression of insulin and IAPP.

Patients with HbA1C in the prediabetes range, 5.7 - 6.4 percent, were considered to be intensively treated if using two or more medications at the time of the test, or if started on additional medications after the test, because current guidelines consider patients with HbA1C less than 6.5 percent to be optimally controlled already.

When the balance insulin sensitivity / secretion and their interplay fail, because 1 or both deteriorate, the subject moves in the lower part of the graph in the bad «zone,» featuring prediabetes / IGM and eventually reaching a status of overt T2DM (197, 198).

Because the study was observational, it does not establish a direct cause - and - effect link between sugary drinks and prediabetes, McKeown said.

I am asking this because the spouse of my colleague at work has started to make the switch to PBWF with my help, after she was told by her doctor that she was entering the prediabetes zone, and is asking whether this will also help with her food allergies and the itching of her skin.

(Because diabetes / prediabetes, low thyroid, and high triglycerides all contribute to high cholesterol levels and would make it harder to lower them with diet alone).

This book states that you can get prediabetes and diabetes because of weight (especially being apple - shaped), poor diet, lack of exercise, age, high blood pressure and high cholesterol; also that genetics are a cause.

Because of this change, estimates of populations with diabetes and prediabetes in the 2011 fact sheet are not directly comparable to estimates in previous fact sheets.