Prediabetes sounds as if it's one of those conditions created just to generate more medical spending, but it's for real. You may not know you have it until the damage has been done. And the best cure for it is at your kitchen table. Prediabetes is a diagnosis increasingly showing up on patients' medical charts, so we asked three physicians -- Kevin Hoppock and Elaine Harrington of the Wichita Clinic and Ron Hunninghake of the Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning International -- to explain what it is. PREDIABETES SEEMS TO BE A NEW TERM. WHY HAVEN'T WE HEARD OF IT UNTIL RECENTLY, AND WHAT DOES HAVING IT MEAN? It used to be known as insulin resistance. It sometimes is called glucose intolerance or impaired glucose tolerance or borderline diabetes.
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