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Diabetes in Virginia is Common, Serious, Costly, Controllable, and Preventable.
Preventable – Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have prediabetes. The Diabetes Prevention Program, a large national study of over 3,000 people showed that changes in lifestyle, including healthier eating (lowering fat and calories), increased activity (about a half hour per day of moderate walking), and modest weight loss (5 to 7 percent of body weight), can substantially reduce the progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes by 58 percent.
High blood pressure, obesity, and high blood cholesterol are three of the major modifiable risk factors for
type 2 diabetes. Adult Virginians with diabetes report having these risk factors more often than adult
Virginians without diabetes.
Persons with diabetes are
• 2.9 times more likely to have high blood pressure than those without diabetes,
• 2.3 times more likely to be obese,
• 2 times more likely to have high cholesterol.
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