# Czech ÚZIS counts 336 thousand prediabetics using centralized laboratory test data

- Published: 2026-11-14 01:36 UTC
- Section: Life & Health › Medicine
- Tags: prediabetes, ÚZIS, Ladislav Dušek, 336 thousand prediabetics, laboratory test data, type 2 diabetes, glycated hemoglobin, AGEL symposium, preventive checkups
- URL: https://realtech.media/news/rt-ac8531a697a22b767f7f1d96_czech_zis_counts/

**The Czech Institute of Health Information and Statistics gained access to laboratory test results and can now estimate how many people have prediabetes, mostly relatively young.**

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*zdravotnickydenik.cz*

The Czech Institute of Health Information and Statistics (ÚZIS) has gained access to laboratory test results and can now estimate the number of people living with prediabetes, according to zdravotnickydenik.cz. ÚZIS director Ladislav Dušek said at the AGEL symposium on civilization diseases that the Czech Republic has 336 thousand prediabetics [1]. These are people with elevated blood glucose that has not yet reached the level of type 2 diabetes.

## Centralized laboratory data

Dušek said ÚZIS is now centralizing laboratory test results, which had not previously been centralized nationwide. Laboratory service providers sent data going back five years [1]. ÚZIS then added untreated diabetics to the dataset; according to Dušek, there are very few of them. The 336 thousand figure came out of this combined dataset [1].

Dušek said these people can be identified: ÚZIS knows who registers them as their general practitioner and where they are potentially in care, so they could be approached. He said he does not believe they want to progress to diabetes and sees a good chance of reversing their condition.

## Who the prediabetics are

According to Dušek, they are mostly relatively young people. He said they do not attend preventive checkups with general practitioners and may not even know they have prediabetes. In his description, someone had a glycated hemoglobin test, a blood test, done somewhere, now has a borderline value, and nobody follows them further [1].

Dušek also pointed to the economic side. He calculated that if these people were stopped from sliding toward diabetes, health insurers alone would save 18 billion crowns a year [1]. This is the estimate of the ÚZIS director, not the result of a completed intervention.

## Sources

1. [zdravotnickydenik.cz](https://www.zdravotnickydenik.cz/2026/11/uzis-diabetes-laboratorni-data-zachyt-dusek)

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