RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Prediabetes Deserves More Attention: A Review
JF Clinical Diabetes
JO diaclin
FD American Diabetes Association
SP 328
OP 338
DO 10.2337/cd19-0101
VO 38
IS 4
A1 Lawal, Yakubu
A1 Bello, Fatima
A1 Kaoje, Yazid Suleiman
YR 2020
UL http://clinical.diabetesjournals.org/content/38/4/328.abstract
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.