The Department of Endocrinology, 
Prediabetes: A Pragmatic approach to counselling and coaching.
- Department of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, India.
- CEO & Co-Founder, Fitterfly-Digital Health & Therapeutics, India.
- Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore (TN) -632004, India, and Non Communicable Disease Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association Vol. 72 · Issue 4 · pp. 771-772
PMID 35614621 DOI 10.47391/jpma.22-29
Cite This Article
Sanjay Kalra, Arbinder Singal, Nitin Kapoor. Prediabetes: A Pragmatic approach to counselling and coaching. JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association. 2022;72(4):771-772. doi:10.47391/jpma.22-29
Abstract
Prediabetes is often considered as the link between normoglycaemia and diabetes. Though a lot of emphasis is given to an individual after the development of diabetes, pre-diabetes is often not adequately addressed in clinical practice. Given a distinct diagnostic criterion, its association with metabolic complications, an opportunity to prevent further progression to diabetes and the large number of people affected with it, makes it a subject of great importance and opportunity. In this brief manuscript we compare and contrast prediabetes with diabetes mellitus. We also describe a pragmatic approach to address a patient with prediabetes.
Keywords
- Prediabetes
- Diabetes
- Diabetes Education
- Counselling
- Diabetes coach
- Lifestyle therapy
- Behavior change.
