The figures for the various diagnoses, diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose are in the latest WHO recommendations. Theres a lot of discussion about the usefulness of the various figures.
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http://www.idf.org/webdata/docs/WHO_...f_diabetes.pdf
They don't like the use of the term pre-diabetes for various reasons including because it doesn't inevitably lead to diabetes :
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The Group recommends using the term Intermediate Hyperglycaemia to describe glycaemic levels between ‘normal’ glucose tolerance and diabetes.Use of ‘pre-diabetes’ is discouraged to avoid any stigma associated with the word diabetes and the fact that many people do not progress to
diabetes as the term implies. In addition this focus on diabetes may divert attention from the important and significantly increased cardiovascular risk.
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I'm not sure I like the mention of stigma
