Pre-diabetes and Health Care Costs

A recent study indicates that people that have pre-diabetes have a greatly increased cost of medical care - some 33% greater cost of medical care than people without pre-diabetes. Even in the state of abnormal high blood glucose levels, not yet at the level of diagnosis for diabetes, there's something going on. These people are still sick and they need to do something about it. This could imply that we may have to revisit the diagnostic threshhold values for diabetes. People need to lose weight and exercise as soon as they can.

Pre-diabetes appears to be an increasingly important state that not only portends the risk of diabetes but other diseases that I think we can prevent through exercise and weight loss.