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Few Older Adults With Prediabetes Show Disease Progression – HealthDay News

Regression to normoglycemia, death more common than progression to diabetes

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TUESDAY, Feb. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Prediabetes may not be a robust diagnostic criteria for predicting diabetes progression among older adults, according to a study published online Feb. 8 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Mary R. Rooney, Ph.D., M.P.H., from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and colleagues used data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (baseline, 2011 to 2013) to identify 3,412 older adults (mean age, 75.6 years) without diabetes with…

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