PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lawal, Yakubu
AU  - Bello, Fatima
AU  - Kaoje, Yazid Suleiman
TI  - Prediabetes Deserves More Attention: A Review
AID  - 10.2337/cd19-0101
DP  - 2020 Oct 01
TA  - Clinical Diabetes
PG  - 328--338
VI  - 38
IP  - 4
4099  - http://clinical.diabetesjournals.org/content/38/4/328.short
4100  - http://clinical.diabetesjournals.org/content/38/4/328.full
SO  - diaclin2020 Oct 01; 38
AB  - Evidence increasingly demonstrates that prediabetes is a toxic state, as well as a risk factor for diabetes, and is associated with pathophysiological changes in several tissues and organs. Unfortunately, use of available evidence-based treatments for prediabetes is low. This review seeks to explain why prediabetes must be viewed and treated as a serious pathological entity in its own right. It offers an overview of the pathophysiology and complications of prediabetes and describes how this condition can be reversed if all treatment avenues are deployed early in its course.