An individual who has pre-diabetes is someone who has a higher than normal blood sugar level. However the glucose level is not high enough to be considered as diabetes. Pre-diabetes is actually borderline diabetes. Having this condition puts people at a 50% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. It is the condition one is in just before developing sugar diabetes.
This is a condition where the pancreas is not producing enough insulin after a meal to signal the cells to take in the glucose for energy. The cells become somewhat insulin resistant but not enough to totally ignore the insulin signal as happens in full blown diabetes. People who have this condition have blood glucose levels of 100 – 125 mg/dl when a fasting plasma test is done after eight hours of not eating. When people have blood glucose levels of 140 – 199 mg/dl after an oral glucose tolerance test they are diagnosed with pre-diabetes too. |