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What is considered borderline diabetes?

Donna Hill Howes, RN
Donna Hill Howes, RN
Family Practitioner

People who are borderline diabetics, or are in the prediabetes stage, have fasting blood glucose levels (8 to 10 hours before eating) between 100 to 125 mg/dl. If blood is tested for blood glucose (sugar) randomly, it would fall between 140 to 200 mg/dl for a person who is a borderline diabetic. If an A1C is checked, a person who is prediabetic would fall between 5.7 to 6.4 percent.

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