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Can you be "healthy" with diabetes?

I think of my T2D as "cured" (ditto for the associated metabolic syndrome) but I have various macro- and mcirovascular legacy after-effects & I'm happy to specify "T2D in remission" or whatever to HCPs because those kind of T2D legacy issues can continue to have a bearing on diagnoses and investigations.
 
As always, the counter-question is "what do you mean by 'healthy'?"
One is also asked (usually on website questionnaires) "do you have a disability?"

I delight in a list of medical conditions as long as your arm (well, a full page of A4), including T2, previous colon and prostate cancers, heart problems, lack of balance [you only have to read some of my posts here to appreciate this!], no - standing-up-and-walking-type balance, and so on.
About the only real positive is an excellent immune system (for example, I had Covid only once, and only for four days, and I almost never get colds or flu, not even man-flu). Oh, and I'm not depressed.

To me, "being healthy" means "I'm still alive!".
The jury is out on whether I consider that I "have a disability"...
 
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"Healthy" means different things to different different people.

To me being healthy meant getting back to normal by losing weight and keeping fit.

This chart illustrates what healthy means to healthcare professionals and researchers involved with the SHIP_TREND project in Pomerania:

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In Pomerania the healthy do not have not have diabetes !!!

Pomeranians were not classified healthy if the met any of these conditions:
  1. diabetes mellitus or diabetes medication
  2. hypertension
  3. body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2
  4. estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ≤60 mL/min/1.73m2,
  5. use of any medication identified by ATC code (except thyroid therapy [ATC H03] and sex hormones [ATC G03])
  6. anemia based on low hemoglobin levels (men: < 8.07 mmol/L, women: < 7.45 mmol/L)
  7. self-reported history of stroke, myocardial infarction, hepatitis, liver cirrhosis or cancer.
SHIP-TREND refers to the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP) - TREND, a population-based cohort study in Northeast Germany investigating common diseases and their risk factors. It's part of the larger SHIP project, which includes other cohorts like SHIP-START and SHIP-NEXT. SHIP-TREND aims to understand the prevalence and incidence of diseases and the complex relationships between risk factors, subclinical disorders, and clinical diseases.

REF: Preventing misdiagnosis of diabetes in the elderly: age-dependent HbA1c reference intervals derived from two population-based study cohorts​

 
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