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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. Your treatment will focus on:
- Watching your weight.
- A healthy weight helps your body use insulin the way it should. For people who have prediabetes and are overweight, losing weight can also lower your body's resistance to insulin (insulin resistance).
- Making healthy food choices.
- Limit the amount of unhealthy fat you eat, such as saturated fat and trans fat. Try to cut calories and limit sweets.
- Getting active.
- The more active you are, the more sugar (glucose) your body uses for energy. This keeps the sugar from building up in your blood. Exercise can also improve insulin resistance.
- Taking medicine, if needed.
- You may need to take a diabetes 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.