Exercise Can Improve Glycemic Control: How to Get Patients Started

摘要

The prevalence of diabetes is increas-ing in epidemic proportions. Nearly26 million people in the UnitedStates currently have diabetes.1 Of those,the disease has been diagnosed in ap-proximately 18.8 million-and about 7million have undiagnosed disease. More-over, more than 1.9 million new casesoccur annually. An additional 79 millionpeople have prediabetes (defined as eitherimpaired fasting glucose, indicated by aglucose level of 100 to 126 mg/dL afteran overnight fast, or as impaired glucosetolerance, indicated by a glucose level of140 to 199 mg/dL after a 2-hour oralglucose tolerance test). The overwhelm-ing majority of persons with diabetes-nearly 90%-have type 2 diabetes.