According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 79 million American adults have pre-diabetes.  As you might guess, pre-diabetes can, and often does, develop into diabetes.  Unfortunately, chances are that the cardiovascular damage that occurs with type 2 diabetes is already occurring with pre-diabetes.  

The good news, however, is that a diagnosis of pre-diabetes does not sentence you to a diagnosis of diabetes; rather, with some lifestyle changes, diabetes can be prevented.