THE GREAT GLUCOSE DECEPTION (Excerpt from book - DIABETES OR DIE-WITH-EASE )
CHAPTER 1: THE GREAT GLUCOSE DECEPTION Who Changed the Diabetes Diagnosis Range—And Why? In the world of health, few things are as dangerously deceptive as the numbers used to diagnose diabetes. At first glance, they seem scientific, precise, and reliable. A number appears on your lab report and suddenly, without symptoms, without pain, without any warning, you are a "diabetic." But have you ever stopped to ask: who decided that number? In 1979, the National Diabetes Data Group (NDDG) set the diagnostic criterion for diabetes as a glucose of 200 mg/dL or higher . This range had a clinical rationale: it was high enough to correlate with symptoms, risk of complications, and abnormal glucose tolerance. Yet, in the decades that followed, that number was quietly lowered — not once, but multiple times. The most significant shift came in 2010 , when the American Diabetes Association (ADA) released guidelines that redefined normal, prediabetic, and diabetic glucose ...