According to the authors of Every Woman’s Guide to Diabetes, women have a far greater chance of developing diabetes than breast cancer. “If current trends continue, one in three women born today can expect to develop diabetes at some point in her life.”
Women are only slightly more likely than men to develop diabetes, but there are certain ethnic groups that are at greater risk.
Hispanic women born since 2000 have an estimated 50-50 chance to develop diabetes. African American, American Indian and Asian American women, as well as those from the Pacific Rim, also have a higher than average risk of developing diabetes.
Other affects of women with diabetse
1) Diabetic women who have heart attacks are less likely to survive, and are more likely to have a poorer quality of life than men with diabetes.
2) Women who develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy are more likely to develop diabetes later in life.
However, women are generally the ones in a position to make healthful changes in the household, such as in the food cooked and served. Healthy eating habits are essential for kids, as there is currently a children’s diabetic epidemic as well!
Catch Pre-diabetes, prevent diabetes
There’s a stage called “pre-diabetes”, when glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be considered diabetes. (Approximately 41 million people have pre-diabetes in the US)
If you take action at this stage, you can delay, or possibly even prevent diabetes. However, pre-diabetes has no symptoms, the only way to know if you’ve got it is to have one of the two types of blood tests: fasting plasma glucose (FPG) or oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).
