TELLING people they have borderline diabetes has no medical value, researchers have said.
A recent study estimated that more than a third of adults in England now have borderline diabetes, or pre-diabetes.
The research, published in the journal BMJ Open, found that the prevalence of pre-diabetes - higher than normal blood glucose levels - tripled between 2003 and 2011 from 11.6 per cent to 35.3 per cent.
But experts from University College London (UCL) and the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota in the US have said that giving people the pre-diabetes label has no clinical worth. "Pre-diabetes is an artificial category with virtually zero clinical relevance," says lead author John Yudkin, Emeritus Professor of medicine at UCL.