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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MimT" data-source="post: 2686158" data-attributes="member: 585741">Agree with this. When you reach 75 your life expectancy is another 14 1/2 years on average (in Australia), with a wide margin of error. (Plenty of people live till they are 90 or 100 these days.) That might not seem much when you're 30 years old, but for a 75 year old, it often means having a few years to enjoy life (relatively) free from responsibilities and pressures, such as work and raising a family.Prediabetes can involve large fluctuations in blood glucose, damaging organs and the circulatory system etc. It may be treated with drugs and/or lifestyle/diet changes.The Harvard study mentioned above had lots of people dying before the end of the study (from what?). It also went for only 5 or 6 years. I've seen elsewhere that prediabetes may lead to diabetes in 5 years, for 25% of people. I don't know if that is with or without drug treatment/lifestyle and diet changes or not. (If you live long enough, lots of things start going haywire. That doesn't mean you can't prevent or slow down those harmful things if you take the appropriate action. It's usually worth a shot.)Many people who are 70, 80 or 90 years old would be happy to change their diet and get more exercise if it meant living longer and having a better quality of life. Whether they want to also take a drug or not would depend on the risk - e.g. of getting hypoglycemia or other unwanted side effects that they may or may not be able to cope with. Most people would still want to know if their glucose levels are in prediabetic range, just as they'd want to know if their lipids are at harmful levels, or if they have a cancer (treatable or not). If a person is given good and complete information, they can make a judgement about what to do about it, taking advice from their doctors and choosing which advice they want to follow.</blockquote>

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