According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 133 million people in the U.S. have diabetes or prediabetes. Of those adults, one in five did not even know they had the condition.
Diabetes is a chronic medical condition characterized by high levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood and can cause a heart attack, stroke, blindness, kidney failure or loss of feet or legs.
Prediabetes, on the other hand, is when your blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not quite at the diabetes level yet.