Noun: prediabetes ,pree-dI-u'bee-teez
- A condition preceding diabetes mellitus, characterized by blood glucose levels higher than normal but below diabetic thresholds, with no overt symptoms but abnormal responses to glucose tolerance tests
"Regular exercise and a healthy diet can help manage prediabetes";
- latent diabetes [archaic], chemical diabetes [archaic]
Type of: diabetes mellitus, DM, sugar diabetes
Encyclopedia: Prediabetes