Can you avoid developing diabetes if you have prediabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Prediabetes is a condition where your blood sugar is higher than it should be, but not high enough to be called diabetes, and if you’ve been told you have it you can take steps to avoid transitioning to diabetes. That’s what Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues were trying to do with an AI driven app to help people make lifestyle changes like weight loss, emulating a formal diabetes prevention program or DPP. 

Mathioudakis: Diet is also super important. I will say in overall when you look at the outcomes the biggest driver of course is weight loss but the DPP showed that people who follow a healthy diet, and of course the science has changed from that original trial, but low carb, Mediterranean, even ketogenic diet has shown evidence for benefits. So independent of weight loss and independent of physical activity people who follow a healthy diet can improve their glycemic control.    :26

Mathiodakis says avoiding the many complications of diabetes is the goal. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.