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Prediabetes Treatment
How is prediabetes treated?
When you have prediabetes, you have a chance to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. Treatment focuses on:
- Watching your weight.
- A healthy weight helps your body use insulin the way it should. If you're overweight, losing weight can also lower your body's resistance to insulin.
- Making healthy food choices.
- Limit the amount of saturated fat and trans fat you eat. Cut calories and limit sweets.
- Getting active.
- Exercise keeps sugar from building up in your blood. It can also improve insulin resistance.
- Quitting smoking, if you smoke.
- Medicines and counseling can help.
- Preventing or managing high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
- Medicines can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
Doing these things will also help you avoid other health problems, like heart disease and stroke, that are linked to diabetes.
You may need to take medicine called metformin. It reduces the amount of sugar made by the liver in people who are insulin-resistant.
Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are research studies that evaluate a new medical approach, device, drug, or other treatment. As a Stanford Health Care patient, you may have access to the latest, advanced clinical trials.
Open trials refer to studies currently accepting participants. Closed trials are not currently enrolling, but may open in the future.