Abstract
Accurately diagnosing prediabetes is critical to refer high-risk individuals for intensive lifestyle modification or pharmacotherapy where appropriate. This perspective briefly reviews the obstacles to detecting prediabetes and broader implementation of diabetes prevention strategies as well as potential solutions (Table 1). Table 1Obstacles to Diabetes Prevention Obstacles Complexity and confusion of defining prediabetes Prediabetes is diagnosed late in the trajectory towards type 2 diabetes with current criteria Lack of awareness of prediabetes, access and referral to intervention programs Lack of long-term sustainability of diabetes prevention interventions Lack of community-wide, population-based strategies Open table in a new tab
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