Diabetes: Prediabetes

If you’ve been diagnosed with prediabetes, it means your blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough for you to be considered diabetic. Diabetes is diagnosed by taking a reading of an individual’s blood sugar levels using one of three tests: fasting, random or 3-month average blood sugar.

An individual without diabetes has a fasting blood sugar level below 100, a random blood sugar level below 140 and a 3-month average blood sugar level, known as the A1C, below 5.7%.

An individual is diagnosed with diabetes if their fasting blood sugar level is above 126, their random blood sugar level is above 200 or their A1C is above 6.4%.

When a person has blood sugar levels that fall in between the normal and diabetes ranges, they are considered to have prediabetes.

Donetta Floyd, RD, LDN, registered dietitian with Cone Health Nutrition and Diabetes Education Services, spoke about prediabetes on Fox 8 House Call.