Objective: Determine the rate of overweight obesity in the pre-diabetes and it' relations with some dinical, biochemical indexes. Methods: Studied 231 prediabetes in Trung Son ward in Ninh Binh province from 6/2011 to 9/2011. Results: the rate of overweight obesity in prediabetes is 45.8 percent. Meanwhile, the prediabetic patients with overweight - obesity also have higher rate of hypertension (62.8 percent), metabolic syndrome (52.9 percent), abdominal obesity (46.7 percent), and insulinresistance 1.68 + or - 0.87 than the patient without overweight - obesity: 45.7 percent (p 0,05)
32.0 percent (p 0,05)
31.7 percent (p 0,05) and 1.29 + or - 0.74 (p0.001). Condusions: the rate of overweight - obesity in prediabetes is high. The pre-diabetic patients with overweight - obesity also have higher rate of hypertension, metabolic syndrome, abdominal obesity, and insulin-resistance than the patient without overweight - obesity.