More people will be labeled as having "pre-diabetes"

January 2004

More people will be labeled as having "pre-diabetes."

The cut-off for pre-diabetes used to be a fasting plasma glucose level of 110 mg/dL. Now it's lower... 100 mg/dL.

This means a HUGE jump in the number of patients with pre-diabetes...about 30 million adults. This will be almost 25% of adults.

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