Older adults with slightly elevated blood sugar, sometimes called "prediabetes," usually don't develop full-blown diabetes, a Swedish study suggests. Researchers followed 2,575 men and women aged 60 and older without diabetes for up to 12 years. At the start of the study, 918 people, or 36 per cent of the group, did have higher-than-normal blood sugar levels that were still below the threshold for diabetes. Only 119 people, 13 per cent of those who started out with elevated blood sugar, went on to develop diabetes.
Another 204, or 22 per cent, had blood sugar levels drop enough to no longer be considered prediabetic. "Progressing to diabetes is not the only destination," said lead study author Ying Shang of the Aging Research Center at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. "In fact, the chance to stay prediabetic or even revert back to (normal blood sugar) is actually pretty high (64…
