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Type 2 diabetes detectable decade before diagnosis
A new Japanese study has claimed that the warning signs of type-2 diabetes may be detectable 20 years before the disease is diagnosed.
Carried out between 2005 and 2016 and looking at the BMIs, fasting blood sugar levels and insulin sensitivity of 27,000 non-diabetics, between the ages of 30 and 50, found that elevated fasting blood sugar levels and insulin resistance were seen in people years before they developed pre-diabetes, often a pre-cursor to type-2 diabetes.
Over the study period, 1,067 new type-2 diabetes cases were diagnosed with researchers finding that these people had had increased fasting blood sugar levels and insulin resistance, along with higher BMIs, up to 10 years before diagnosis. A similar pattern was observed in those who went on to develop pre-diabetes.
As the majority of people who develop type-2 diabetes first go through a pre-diabetes stage, researchers say it means the warning signs of the condition may be detectable more than 20 years before an actual diagnosis.
Approximately one million people in the UK are thought to have type-2 diabetes and not yet know it.
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