IS THERE SUCH THING AS BORDERLINE DIABETES? QUESTION 9

9. Is there such a thing as borderline diabetes? What is it?

The term borderline diabetes has now been replaced by the term prediabetes. Both terms indicate that a person has abnormalities in his or her plasma glucose levels that fall short of standard accepted definitions for frank diabetes.

Table 1 shows the normal ranges for both fasting plasma glucose and for plasma glucose after a glucose load by mouth. The reason that a standardized 75 gram (a little under 3 ounces) glucose load is used is to allow a direct comparison between different individuals under the same conditions.