Prediabetes

Markers of impaired glucose metabolism in nondiabetics were independently related to increased risks of all-cause and cardiovascular death in a large population-based study.

For diabetes and prediabetes screening, random plasma glucose testing alone appears to be at least as good as the full gamut of metabolic syndrome tests, and is easier and cheaper to boot, researchers found.

The new ADA consensus statement specifies that screening for prediabetes should involve the fasting plasma glucose test and the 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test and should be undertaken in the same population that is currently screened for diabetes.

Evaluation of a campaign that screened a community of 95,000 via 530 pharmacies.

A high normal A1c (HbA1c) reading might be a better, cheaper, and easier-to-use screening tool for prediabetes and diabetes than the laboratory-based oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).

Losing a modest amount of weight, just 10 pounds through dietary changes and increased physical activity reduces the occurrence of urinary incontinence (UI) in women with prediabetes.

Patients who present with idiopathic neuropathy may in fact be experiencing the first signs of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT or “prediabetes”).

People’s bodies respond to exercise in different ways, and their genetic makeup is partly responsible.

Retinopathy can lead to blindness in people with diabetes and may occur far sooner than previously thought, possibly when patients are still in the prediabetes stage or when glucose levels are only slightly higher than normal.

Normal insulin sensitivity is restored more rapidly and is not dependent on the amount of weight loss.