Comparative analysis of drug intervention effect on patients with impaired glucose regulation in China / 国际药学研究杂志

ABSTRACT

Impaired glucose regulation(IGR,also named prediabetes)is an abnormal condition and important period for dia?betes mellitus. The period includes impaired fasting glucose or/and impaired glucose tolerance. IGR should be screened promptly and be interfered by life style and drugs to recover normal condition,or to delay and control the development of diabetes mellitus for de?creasing the highrisk of diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. The paper reviews the literature about antiglycemic drugs and tra?ditional Chinese medicine interventions for IGR in China in the recent ten years,and summarizes some characters of these drugs to provide some help for prediabetes.