Erschienen in:
17.06.2016 | Editorial
Prediabetes: the cat is out!
verfasst von:
Venkata Ranga Rao Kodali, Iftikhar Ali
Erschienen in:
International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries
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Ausgabe 2/2016
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Excerpt
Prediabetes is a state of hyperglycemia preceding diabetes. This state is mostly reversible and hence needs special attention. The benefits of arresting the progression of prediabetes to diabetes and thus the spectrum of complications such as blindness, dialysis dependence, sexual dysfunction, amputations, loss of self-esteem, unremitting neuropathy, and in addition to changing lifestyle with daily interventions in the form of injections, monitoring outweigh any other single disease prevention. Prediabetes or intermediate hyperglycaemia is defined as dysglycemia in which the spectrum ranges from normal and diabetes. …