Prediabetes

It is defined as a fasting blood glucose (the amount of sugar in a person's blood after 8 hours of fasting) between 100-125 mg/dl, or a 2-hour value of 140-199 mg/dl after a glucose load (oral glucose tolerance test/OGTT), or a blood hemoglobin A1c (hemoglobin A1c; a protein formed by the interaction of blood sugar with the hemoglobin found in red blood cells) between 5.7-6.4.

Diabetes must be detected in the pre-diabetic period, that is, the hidden sugar period, or in the so-called early clinical period when the disease has only just appeared. This is because, considering the total period of 10-15 years that includes the pre-diabetic stage and the symptom-free stage in which no organ damage affecting quality of life has yet occurred, Type 2 diabetes, which is widespread, is a very insidious disease.

Considering the rapid rise of diabetes both in the TRNC and worldwide, this period gains great importance. It should not be forgotten that the only period in which diabetes can be prevented is this early period, when the disease is not yet producing symptoms. Click here for our diabetes test package.