Blood Glucose Monitoring In article number 2208820, Qiao Jiang, Baoquan Ding, Yan Wu, Ran Liu, and co-workers describe a fluorescence-amplified origami microneedle (FAOM) device for quantitatively monitoring blood glucose. Through collaboratively integrating the advantages of fluorescence imaging, DNA origami, patch, FAOM can monitor glucose in real-time trivially painful, highly sensitive accu...

Objective: To compare efficiency of glucose challenge test with oral glucose tolerance test for detection of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Methods: This observational cross sectional study was conducted in The Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sharif Medical and Dental College / Sharif Medical City Hospital, from December 2012 to June, 2013. 1000 consecutive pregnant ladies were ...

AIM To evaluate an agreement in identifying dysglycemia between fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and the 2 hr postprandial glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in a population with high risk of diabetes. METHODS A total of 6,884 individuals aged 35-65 years recruited for a community-based diabetes prevention program were tested for prediabetes including impaired fasting glucose (IFG) or impaired glucose...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in middle-aged women and to examine the variability and practical use of the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in the screening for IGT and diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS All 64-year-old women living in Göteborg, Sweden, were invited to take part in a screening examinati...

The effect of karela (Momordica charantia), a fruit indigenous to South America and Asia, on glucose and insulin concentrations was studied in nine non-insulin-dependent diabetics and six non-diabetic laboratory rats. A water-soluble extract of the fruits significantly reduced blood glucose concentrations during a 50 g oral glucose tolerance test in the diabetics and after force-feeding in the ...

The authors examined the associations of glucose tolerance status and fasting and 2-hour postload glucose levels with the risk of cancer death in a 19-year follow-up study of 2,438 Japanese subjects aged 40-79 years who underwent a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (1988-2007). During follow-up, 229 subjects died of cancer. The risk of cancer death was significantly higher in subjects with fasti...

Glucose tolerance is lower in the evening and at night than in the morning. However, the relative contribution of the circadian system vs. the behavioral cycle (including the sleep/wake and fasting/feeding cycles) is unclear. Furthermore, although shift work is a diabetes risk factor, the separate impact on glucose tolerance of the behavioral cycle, circadian phase, and circadian disruption (i....

To the Editor: Tamita et al reported that abnormal glucose tolerance in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a major risk factor for future cardiovascular events and might critically distinguish high-risk individuals.1 The cardiovascular event-free survival rate in the impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) group and the group with newly diagnosed diabetes were 73% and 67%, respectively...

OBJECTIVE The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is used to define the status of glucose tolerance based on the plasma glucose level at 120 min. The purpose of the present study was to identify parameters that determine the shape of the plasma glucose course measured at 0, 30, 60, 90, and 120 min during an OGTT. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS OGTT data from 551 subjects (485 with normal glucose ...