PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH PREDIABETES AMONG GENERAL POPULATION ASSOCIATED WITH IN RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA

Sarah Ali Alharbi, Rawan Nasser Almutairi, Sumaeah Mohammad Alghamdi, Shahad Fahad Alahmadi, Khalid M. Ahmed* and Alaa Nemer Alruwaili

ABSTRACT

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines diabetes as a long-term metabolic disorder marked by high blood glucose levels with disturbances of carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolic abnormalities caused by deficiencies. Diabetes mellitus is the most common chronic endocrine illness, affecting between 5% and 10% of the adult population in developed Western countries, Asia, Africa, Central America, and South America, and having a significant Prediabetes is the intermediate state between normal glucose hemostasis and diabetes. According to the National Diabetes Data Group, it occurs either due to 'impaired fasting glucose' or 'impaired glucose tolerance' or both. Therefore, prediabetes can be considered as a stage when the level of the glycemic variables is higher than the normal level of glycemic variables is higher than normal levels but not in the rangeofdiabetes.

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