Is ‘prediabetes’ turning healthy people into patients?
Prediabetes — a slight elevation in blood glucose — rarely leads to full-blown type 2 diabetes and started its life as a public-relations catchphrase, reports Science. Yet the category has spawned public-health programmes worth billions of dollars, and at least ten classes of drug. Now, physicians and researchers are questioning whether a sweeping diagnosis that encompasses one-quarter of the US population is doing more harm than good.
Science | 21 min read
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