Medical term for a condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not yet diabetic. Also referred to as 境界型糖尿病.
See also: 境界型糖尿病
I was diagnosed with prediabetes at my health checkup.
前糖尿病の段階で生活習慣を改善すれば、糖尿病への進行を防げる。
If you improve your lifestyle at the prediabetes stage, you can prevent progression to diabetes.
糖尿病 is diabetes itself, while 前糖尿病 is the precursor state with elevated blood sugar that has not yet reached diabetic levels.
境界型糖尿病 is a synonym for prediabetes, often used interchangeably in medical contexts.
Compound of 前 (pre-) and 糖尿病 (diabetes), a direct calque of the English medical term 'prediabetes'.