Must-Read: : Prevalence of and Trends in Diabetes Among Adults in the United States, 1988-2012: "Diabetes... [is] a previous diagnosis of diabetes or...
...(1) a hemoglobin A1c level of 6.5% or greater or a fasting plasma glucose (FPG) level of 126 mg/dL or greater.... Prediabetes was defined as a hemoglobin A1c level of 5.7% to 6.4%, an FPG level of 100 mg/dL to 125 mg/dL.... In the overall 2011-2012 population, the unadjusted prevalence... was 14.3%... for total diabetes... and 38.0%... for prediabetes...
