Lifestyle choices key to preventing diabetes

Excerpt from www.cleveland.com

If you’re sitting in a room with two other people, look around and take stock. Chances are one of you is well on your way to developing Type 2 diabetes.

Is it you?

“People think ‘If I don’t experience any symptoms that means I’m not at risk,'” said Dr. Kevin Borst, a Cleveland Clinic endocrinologist. “Symptoms such as increased urination, thirst and weight loss don’t develop until there is relatively severe hyperglycemia [high blood sugar] and that’s five or 10 years down the line from when their lifestyle should have been changed.”

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