BACKGROUND Increased fasting plasma glucose (FPG), which includes impaired fasting glucose (IFG), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and diabetes, is a risk factor for arterial stiffness. While IFG is widely accepted as a cardiovascular risk factor, recent studies have argued that subjects with high-normal glucose level were characterized by a high incidence of cardiovascular disease. The purpos...

Background Diabetes has been defi ned on the basis of diff erent biomarkers, including fasting plasma glucose (FPG), 2-h plasma glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test (2hOGTT), and HbA1c. We assessed the eff ect of diff erent diagnostic defi nitions on both the population prevalence of diabetes and the classifi cation of previously undiagnosed individuals as having diabetes versus not having...

BACKGROUND Although diabetes is a well-known risk factor for death, its impact on cancer death is not clearly understood. Furthermore, it remains controversial whether impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and/or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) are associated with increased risk of mortality. We investigated the impact of diabetes or glucose tolerance categories on all cause and cause-specific mortal...

the aim was to compare the predictive power for type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm) using dynamic change (difference) of metabolic syndrome (ms), difference of fasting plasma glucose (fpg), baseline ms and fpg in cohort study.overall, 3461 subjects were recruited from prevention of multiple metabolic disorders and ms in jiangsu of china study with 3.8 years follow-up. cox proportional-hazards regre...

objective:fasting plasma glucose (fpg) analysis is the most importantmethod for detection and diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. due to difficulty and problems of this method for determination of glycemia in diabetic patients, recently the use of fasting salivary glucoseas a simple and non-invasive method to evaluate fpghas came into significant considerationof specialists. the aim of this study w...

OBJECTIVE Early identification of subjects at high risk for diabetes is essential, and random HbA(1c) (A1C) may be more practical than fasting plasma glucose (FPG). The predictive value of A1C, in comparison to FPG, is evaluated for 6-year incident diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS From the French cohort study Data from an Epidemiological Study on the Insulin Resistance Syndrome (DESIR), ...

OBJECTIVE A1C is an optional method for diagnosing diabetes and also for detecting individuals at increased risk of the disease. However, how A1C compares with fasting (FPG) and 2-h plasma glucose for detecting at-risk individuals is not well known. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A 2-h glucose tolerance test, frequently sampled intravenous glucose tolerance test, and A1C were obtained at the fol...

AIM To audit Type 2 diabetes screening in general practice in France and to determine the frequency of undiagnosed diabetes in patients at high risk, after systematic screening and diagnosis. METHODS For this study, 288 general practitioners volunteered to include all consecutive non-diabetic patients aged < 65 years who had at least two risk factors for diabetes, whatever the reason for cons...

U sing a large retrospective study in Arab (80.1%) and South Asian (15.5%) pregnant women, Agarwal et al. (1) questioned the helpfulness of the full 2-h oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), as recommended by the International Association of the Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG) for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) (2). The IADPSG proposes measuring fasting plasma g...