10

June
2009

Predicting Type 2 Diabetes Earlier

category: Dafé’s Café - Daily Dose of Medical News,MyDocHub
by Dafé,

Scientists in the United Kingdom and Denmark found that in a study involving 6,538 adults without Type 2 diabetes, in the diabetic patients following a ten year period, a linear increase was seen in fasting glucose followed by a steep increase starting three years before their diagnoses. The study was presented recently at the American Association of Diabetes annual meeting in New Orleans and is published online in the Lancet.

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