Pre-Diabetes is a relatively new term for a condition of abnormal glucose metabolism wherein the patient has periods of both hyper and hypo glycemia, but without meeting the formal definition of type 2 diabetes mellitus. An individual may show evidence of being pre-diabetic for many years before actually transforming into a full type 2 diabetic. In some instances, a person may be pre-diabetic for much of his or her adult life without ever making ...
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Pre-Diabetes is a relatively new term for a condition of abnormal glucose metabolism wherein the patient has periods of both hyper and hypo glycemia, but without meeting the formal definition of type 2 diabetes mellitus. An individual may show evidence of being pre-diabetic for many years before actually transforming into a full type 2 diabetic. In some instances, a person may be pre-diabetic for much of his or her adult life without ever making that transformation.
In addition to putting a patient at risk of developing full type 2 diabetes at some point in the future, pre-diabetes may also lead to many or all of the same complications known to afflict the diabetic patient. These complications include: obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia (disorders of cholesterol and triglycerides), atherosclerosis, heart attack, stroke, peripheral arterial disease (poor circulation in the lower extremities), blindness due to retinopathy, kidney failure due to nephropathy, damage to nerves of the feet...
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