The United States disease control and prevention centers (CDC) have joined forces with the American Medical Association (AMA) to develop an “urgent action” that helps prevent the accelerated increase in diabetes cases in the United States.
Under the slogan “Prevent Diabetes Stat (Screen, Test, Act, Today)”, the alliance will allow promoting an initiative for several years to expand the work that both organizations develop in order to stop the progress of type 2 diabetes, considered aof the most problematic chronic diseases in the country.
"We need a joint national effort to prevent additional cases of type 2 diabetes in our country and we need to be now," said Ann Albright, director of the CDC Diabetes Division.
According to CDC data, more than 86 million Americans live with prediabetes and about 90 percent of them do not know, since although they have a higher blood sugar level, it is not normal, it is not whatenough to be diagnosed with the disease.
Health authorities estimate that between 15 percent and 30 percent of people with prediabetes will develop the disease in the next 5 years if they do not apply changes in their food and lifestyle, such as increasing physical activity and losing weightmoderately.
Compared to other ethnic groups, Hispanics present almost double risk of developing type 2 diabetes, while gestational diabetes is also more frequent among Hispanic and African -American women, according to CDC data.
As part of the initiative, both organizations have created a data network with resources available in each community so that medical staff can better guide patients.
Also, an Internet platform has been created, www.preventdiabetesstat.org, which allows patients to determine the risk of developing type 2.
Relevant information
According to the centers for control and disease prevention (CDC), prediabetes occurs in people with bloodst glucose levels higher than normal, but are not yet within the diabetes range.Doctors also call this affection in fasting glucose (IgA) or glucose intolerance, according to the test used for diagnosis.
Insulin resistance and prediabetes normally have symptoms.
Someone with prediabetes, according to CDC, runs a greater risk of suffering from type 2 diabetes. Studies have shown that most people with prediabetes contract type 2 diabetes in the course of 10 years, unless they lose weight making smallChanges in your food and physical activity.Prediabetic people also run greater risks of suffering from heart disease.
Diabetes is not an inevitable outcome for people with prediabetes, reports the CDC.Studies seem to indicate that people with prediabetes can avoid or delay diabetes through weight loss and greater physical activity and have normal blood glucose levels again.