Researchers from Aizawa Hospital in Japan found that increased fasting glucose higher body mass index (BMI) and impaired insulin sensitivity were detectable 10 years before the diagnosis of diabetes as well as prediabetes. As the vast majority of people with Type-2 diabetes go through the stage of prediabetes our findings suggest that elevated metabolic markers for diabetes are detectable more than 20 years before its diagnosis said Hiroyuki Sagesaka lead researcher from the varsity. According to present studies diabetes can be detected 20 years before its diagnosis unlike the previous research which suggested that risk factors like obesity and elevated