My husband is 30 years old and just had a physical and the doctor said his glucose was a bit high at 206 and will do another blood test in 6 months. What should we know about this, is this a precursor for diabetes. He's very healthy (at least we thought before this test), works out alot, eats a vegetarian diet. How concerned should we be?

Be concerned enough to act.

First, find a competent doctor or endocrinologist and get full diagnostic testing done. I say full testing, because at his age and apparent fitness, he may be one of the more obscure types such as MODY or LADA. See the last two urls's.

If the 206 was a valid test, then he should have been re-tested by the doctor as a matter of course. Read the first source url on diagnosis levels:

"The ADA recommendations for diagnosing diabetes state that patients should be told they have diabetes if any of the criteria below applies:

* Fasting plasma glucose is equal to or greater than 126 mg/dl;

* Diabetes symptoms exist and casual plasma glucose is equal to or above 200 mg/dl; or

* Plasma glucose is equal to or greater than 200 mg/dl during an oral glucose tolerance test. "

Vegetarian diets are much more difficult to manage as a diabetic because of the higher carbohydrate content. Not impossible, but difficult.

Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia A vegetarian diet is good, but he should also incoroprate some carbohydrates into his meal in order to keep his sugar from plummetting into the higher numbers. 206 is high and this needs to be controlled. Watch your serving sizes and the times that you eat. Diabetics generally eat 45-60grams of carbohydrates per meal and they take medication and exercise. You can visit the ADA--American Diabetes Association website and look under Pre-Diabetes and read this and this should give you more helpful information. Or you can type in Pre-Diabetes and get plenty of information.