SORU: aşağıdaki parçaya göre cevaplayınız
The underlined phrasal verb 'stave off' is closest in meaning to ----.
Prediabetes is a precursor to type 2 diabetes, but that
diagnosis does not necessarily mean diabetes is your
destiny. “Once you have diabetes, you cannot become
un-diabetic—but you can reverse prediabetes,” says Dr.
Grazia Aleppo, professor of medicine at Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine. Prediabetes
means the body struggles to use or produce the
hormone insulin, making blood sugar (glucose) zoom to
abnormally high levels, but not quite high enough to be
considered full-blown diabetes. A third of American
adults are estimated to have it, and your risk is higher if
you have an immediate family history of type 2 diabetes,
you are over 45, or you have had gestational diabetes.
Though many people with prediabetes eventually
progress to the full disease, taking steps to make some
lifestyle changes such as a healthy Mediterranean diet
and more exercise to control blood sugar can help stave
it off. That is crucial: Type 2 diabetes increases risks for
chronic health problems like heart disease, stroke, and
impaired nerve, eye, and kidney function.