Prediabetes: Correlating the Ancient and Modern Schools of Medicine

Abstract

Modern medicine has recognized prediabetes as a well-characterized syndrome only in the last two decades. However,Ayurveda has clearly described distinct stages of diabetes thousands of years ago. The Ayurvedic classification representsthe entire clinical spectrum of diabetes that we encounter today. In this article, we present the Ayurvedic perspective onprediabetes with regard to etiology, clinical features and management, which emphasizes lifestyle modification as the keyapproach to manage the dysglycemia.