Diabetic neuropathy is a well known complication of both Diabetes type I and Diabetes type II. Can Prediabetes cause diabetic neuropathy? People with Prediabetes have a normal blood sugar but they will have an abnormal glucose tolerance test. In a study reported in Medscape, The Mayo Clinic performed divided patients into three groups, normal, Prediabetic (A1C<6.5, fasting sugar between 100 and 126 and the 2 hour between 140-200) and Diabetic. They tested all three groups for the presence of neuropathy similar to the diabetic neuropathy. They found an increased incidence among people with Diabetes but no difference between the prediabetic and normal group. They concluded that Prediabetes does not causes diabetic neuropathy.
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