It measures your average blood glucose levels over the past two to three months; results of 5.7 percent to 6.4 percent, which indicate the percentage of red blood cells
that have glucose attached to them, indicate prediabetes.
Among thousands of people with prediabetes who participated in a national study called the Diabetes Prevention Program, those who received counseling about lifestyle changes, like losing a modest amount of weight, stepping up physical activity
and reducing the amount of fat and calories in their diets, were able to reduce their risk of developing diabetes by 58 percent.
While prediabetes often leads to full-fledged Type 2 diabetes, many people can hold the condition in check if they lose a relatively small amount of weight
and increase their physical activity, said Dr. Rhonda Bentley-Lewis, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
One, the fasting plasma glucose test, checks blood glucose levels after an 8 to 10
hour fast; results of 100 to 125 milligrams per deciliter indicate prediabetes.
Doctors typically perform one of three blood tests to diagnose prediabetes, a condition marked by blood sugar (glucose) levels
that are higher than normal but not high enough to qualify as diabetes.
It checks blood glucose levels after fasting and then two hours after you consume
a sweetened drink; levels of 140 to 199 after the drink indicate prediabetes.

“If I had your stem cells and created a heart, liver, lung and an ovary, I could test 10 different drugs at 10 different doses on you and say, ‘Here’s the drug
that will help your Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s or diabetes,’ ” the lead investigator, Teresa K. Woodruff, said in a report about the research on the Northwestern University website.
Meet Evatar: The Lab Model That Mimics the Female Reproductive System –
By CHRISTINE HAUSERMARCH 30, 2017
Researchers in the United States have created a model of a female reproductive system
that is so close to the real thing it even simulates a menstrual cycle and pregnancy hormones.
“The key here is to have an integrated picture of events occurring in multiple tissues.”
But he said a shortcoming was the use of ovarian tissue from a mouse, which has a reproductive system
controlled by the brain, rather than a monkey, whose reproductive systems are more like humans.
“All of these diseases are hormonally driven, and we really don’t know how to treat them except for surgery,” Joanna E.
Burdette, a researcher with the University of Illinois, said in the Northwestern University report on the research.
The ovary for Evatar uses mouse tissue, and other organs are fashioned from human
tissue obtained from hysterectomy surgery patients for the other organs.
Dr. Jerome F. Strauss III, professor at the obstetrics
and gynecology department at the Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Medicine, said the research model was a significant step forward because it did not isolate the cells that are important to the function of the uterus.