Blood Glucose Diagnostic Thresholds
Historical diagnostic thresholds were too lenient, allowing people already on a trajectory toward metabolic disease to believe they were healthy. The diagnostic threshold for diabetes was lowered from 140 mg/dL to 126 mg/dL in 1997, reclas…
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Historical diagnostic thresholds were too lenient, allowing people already on a trajectory toward metabolic disease to believe they were healthy. The diagnostic threshold for diabetes was lowered from 140 mg/dL to 126 mg/dL in 1997, reclassifying millions as diabetic overnight. Blood sugar between 85 and 100 mg/dL represents a subclinical state that is a gradual slide toward pre-diabetes. Fasting blood sugar above 85 mg/dL is associated with a 40% increased risk of dying from a heart attack.