Even when it's medical people like the folks at Mayo Clinic? :dontknow:
What about the person who, about ten years ago, had a BG reading of 135? He was not diabetic on the day when the criteria was 140, but he was the next day when the criteria was changed from 140 to 126. Yet nothing changed in his body, right? Sleep apnea is defined as 15 breathing pauses of 10 seconds or more per hour. But can you really say the person who has 20 pauses of 9 seconds each hour does not have sleep apnea, and the person with 14 pauses of 20 seconds or more also does not?
At what point is your Spyder's rear tire flat? Only when it's finally down to 8 psi, or is it 4, or 2, or 0? When is it almost flat? At 15 psi, or 10? When you are dealing with definitions that are based on a sliding or analog value there really is no such thing as absolute yes or no. In pregnancy there is a cell mass growing and dividing or not, no in between. In counting pennies if you have 5 pennies in your hand, you don't have 6. No ifs and or buts about it. But if you just drilled a hole in a piece of metal is it round or oval if one diameter is 10 thousandths larger than another? You could call it oval and not round if it's .062 in diameter. But it would most likely be defined as round if it's 10 inches in diameter. There is no such thing as exact in variable measurements, only in discreet measurements.
Pre-diabetic is a perfectly good way to describe a condition that is approaching the threshold of the somewhat arbitrary diabetes definition.
