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14 cze 2021 · It is estimated that 25% of adults older than 65 have type 2 diabetes, while half of people over 65 have prediabetes. We know that having type 2 diabetes as an older adult requires proper lifestyle, and sometimes medications, to control the disease and reduce the risk of diabetes-related complications, but the implications of having prediabetes ...
The prevalence of prediabetes was high among older adults; however, progression from prediabetes to diabetes was uncommon during the 6.5-year period. Indeed, regression to normoglycemia and death was more frequent than progression to diabetes from prediabetes.
23 lut 2021 · A longitudinal study of older adults, published online this month in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, provides some answers about the very common in-between condition known as prediabetes. The...
Although more than half of Americans over 65 meet criteria for prediabetes, most of them will not progress to developing diabetes. While conflicting messages abound regarding prediabetes, the Endocrine Society recommends an oral glucose tolerance test for those older patients at greatest risk for developing diabetes.
4 gru 2020 · Over one-quarter of people over the age of 65 years have diabetes and one-half of older adults have prediabetes (1, 2), and the number of older adults living with these conditions is expected to increase rapidly in the coming decades.
16 gru 2019 · Approximately one-quarter of people over the age of 65 years have diabetes and one-half of older adults have prediabetes (1), and the number of older adults living with these conditions is expected to increase rapidly in the coming decades.
The study tested different diagnostic criteria for prediabetes to compare how well they worked in older adults: using “HbA1c” levels; using fasting glucose levels; using either HbA1c or fasting glucose levels; or requiring the criteria for both measures to be met.
