We can't have health at every size but we can experience dignity at every size. We can appreciate and care for others at every size. We need to understand the risks imposed by excess adiposity & deliver effective compassionate treatment. We need to heal weight bias & stigma.
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...as well as risk of developing diabetes. However, there's some debate currently as to whether 5.7% cutoff for pre diabetes is correct, given that few people between 5.7-6 develop significant complications/diabetes
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Good chance the pre- diabetes cutoff will be raised to 6 in the next year or two, watch this space!
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neat. I know for for A1c, FPG, 2 hr GGT all were created at the increased inflection point for retinopathy. I thought pre-DM was based on increased risk of T2D over the next 5 yrs - I know they're at
risk of macrovascular events but not aware of a clear "inflection" point. -
From my understanding it was a combination of the two. I've heard some calls to abolish pre-diabetes completely and just make 6 diagnostic for diabetes
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. The rest is speculation.
Weight-height tables were used by insurance companies to predict mortality. This is an associative, not causal relationship.
BMI has a long & twisted history, with an origin in stats, not biology. See Hite & Carter 2019.