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12.5. The time is now for new, lower diabetes diagnostic thresholds

BE Schwartz SS, Rachfal AW, Corkey

Trends in endocrinology and metabolism. 2022;33(1):4-7. doi: 10.1016/j.tem.2021.10.007Brief Summary: In this perspective, the authors propose to remove the term prediabetes and shift the paradigm to include current glycemic thresholds for prediabetes as diabetes.Comment: In 2001, a group of experts defined the term prediabetes to raise aware...