Open AccessPrediabetes
Author(s) -
Muhammad Salman Bashir,
Arshad Iqbal Wani,
Shariq Rashid Masoodi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of medical sciences/journal of medical sciences (srinagar. online)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2582-063X
pISSN - 0972-110X
DOI - 10.33883/jms.v14i1.62
Subject(s) - prediabetes , medicine , diabetes mellitus , impaired glucose tolerance , insulin resistance , type 2 diabetes mellitus , endocrinology , type 2 diabetes
Pre-diabetes is a metabolic condition characterized by insulin resistance and primary or secondary beta cell dysfunction which increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus. It is used to describe the intermediate state of abnormal glucose metabolism in which blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not yet in the range necessary for diagnosis of diabetes. The concept of prediabetes arose in 1950’s when high perinatal mortality was reported in pregnancies before diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. Prediabetes was included in the classification of glucose tolerance in the 1965 WHO Expert Committee Report on Diabetes Mellitus...JMS 2011;14(1):4-10.