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Doctor said i'm pre-diabetic! what does this mean exactly?

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Dr. Stevan Cordas answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Prediabetic: Doctors follow rules. The diagnosis of diabets is made as follows: the national diabetes data group recommendation that the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus be based on two fasting plasma glucose levels of 126 mg per dl (7.0 mmol per l) or higher. Other options for diagnosis include two two-hour postprandial plasma of 200 mg per dl. You are not noremal but not yet a daibetic.

Answered 6/25/2017

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