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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2688377" data-attributes="member: 517579">nNo problem - just to complete the story, the "diagnosis at 48" is comparatively recent. There was international agreement in around 2008 that countries would all accept a BG level of 48 as being diagnostic for T2. This agreement however did not exclude anyone diagnosing diabetes at lower BG levels - the 48 was designed as a backstop so comparisons could be made across different healthcare systems - it wasn't done for patients. The problem has been that the NHS has decided that it will now ONLY diagnose T2 at a level of 48. This means a couple of things - that there are a considerable number of us who have or had T2 symptoms at lower BG levels - ie, we have T2, but who aren't officially defined as such; and that the idea of "pre-diabetes" has had to be invented to account for the gap between "normal" BG levels (see graph) and the bogus (in my opinion) diagnostic point.</blockquote>

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