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A recent Washington State Department of Health study found that about one in three Washington adults ages 25 or older had fasting blood glucose levels indicating pre-diabetes. Pre-diabetes means that your blood sugar level is higher than normal. People with pre-diabetes have an increased risk of developing costly chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. We know that if we diagnose people with pre-diabetes early, help them increase physical activity and reduce body weight, we can prevent about half of the people with pre-diabetes from progressing to type 2 diabetes. Pre-diabetes is preventable and reversible.