A recent study which was published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine which studied 3,400 older Americans with prediabetes found that only 8% developed diabetes over the next six years. “We found that, in older adults, prediabetes was not a robust predictor of progression to diabetes,†says lead study author Mary Rooney, a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 47% of Americans over the age of 65 had blood sugar levels that are higher than normal (AARP Bulletin April 21, page 4)
