Help Your Patients Avoid Diabetes: 95% Unidentified

Prediabetes affects one in three adults across the United States. Yet it often goes undetected and untreated.

In fact, a 2022 paper published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine discovered that just 5.4% of patients who screened positive for pre-diabetes received a formal diagnosis. And of those 5.4%, none received appropriate treatment.

The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way. Because we apply our practical, comprehensive approach to lifestyle medicine to every patient we work with, we are often able to detect, treat and even reverse the development of prediabetes before it leads to serious health issues.

Our toolbox includes:

The routine use of Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs), which detect changes to blood glucose levels. Changes to blood glucose are often an early indicator of later elevation in A1c levels—and studies have shown they can show up as much as 10 years before A1c starts to shift
A strong focus on behavioral science and behavior change support, providing patients not just with a set of recommendations, but a practical set of strategies for sticking to a treatment plan for the long term.
Regular, even weekly interventions—meaning we are able to focus on lifestyle modification in a way that can be hard to do through less regular PCP visits.
A robust approach to ongoing education and empowerment, helping patients to understand exactly how their diet and lifestyle may either contribute to, or mitigate, the risk of type 2 diabetes.

With the patient's permission, we also work closely with you, the primary care provider, to share data, and to also make sure that our work is complementary to and aligned with your treatment plans.