CHAPTER5:What are different levels of diabetes prevention?

Preventing Diabetes and its complications

Diabetes is totally a disease of prevention. And we all know that prevention is better than cure! we can fight diabetes by taking different type of preventive measures. as u can see in the table above.

There are 4 Levels of prevention:

1. Primordial prevention: This is prevention of development of Risk factors in a person whom they have not yet appeared
2. Primary prevention: Risk factors have developed in the body. we apply primary preventive measures to stop/postpone or delay development of disease.
3. Secondary prevention: Disease has developed in the body but it is in its early stages so we can here apply secondary preventives measures to stop/modify/delay the development of complications.
4. Tertiary prevention: Disease has caused complications. We take tertiary preventive measures to stop/delay further progress of complications leading to death or disability