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No, really. Insulin resistance and elevated fasted blood are clinical markers of diabetes and prediabetes. There is no arguing this.

Yes, non-obese individuals with type 2 diabetes exist, though they are rare. Obese individuals who are not prediabetic or already have pathological type 2 diabetes are unicorns.

Patients are already having their blood sugar monitored in a clinical setting, especially diabetic ones or ones likely to be prediabetic. And those patients are... obese.

There is no getting around his fact.

Non-obese patients also have this checked regularly. Clinicians frequently ask for fasting the night beforehand to check blood values. They are checking for this. Nothing here is new, even remotely.