Intervening at prediabetes stage is critical to controlling the diabetes epidemic among Asian Indians.

The article offers the author's insights on the critical intervention at prediabetes stage to control epidemic among Asian Indians. Topics mentioned include the use of lifestyle intervention and metformin drug in preventing type-2 diabetes (T2DM), the challenge in implementing lifestyle intervention in India which has limited population awareness, and the multiple risk factors in Asian Indians. It also suggested a multi-centric trial on the benefits of metformin.