Pre-Diabetes
Disease Process
Pre-diabetes is what used to be called borderline diabetes. It is indicated by a fasting blood sugar between 100-125 mg/dl or an A1c between 5.6-6.5%. As its name suggests, left unchecked, pre-diabetes develops into type 2 diabetes.
These higher than normal blood sugars are the result of insulin resistance, a medical term to describe the circumstances of the pancreas producing insulin to lower blood sugar, but the body resisting it. High blood sugar is the result.
