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.