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Article: Screening protocol developed to identify postmenopausal women with IGT or type 2 diabetes.(impaired glucose tolerance)
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- Diabetes Week
- Article date:
- September 9, 2002
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2002 SEP 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - A screening protocol for postmenopausal women that combines fasting plasma glucose (FPG) results with body mass index (BMI) measurements identified most of the women with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and almost all of the women with type 2 diabetes,
Mithat Erenus and colleagues at the Marmara University School of Medicine in Istanbul conducted fasting plasma glucose (FPG) tests followed by oral glucose tolerance testing (OGGT) in 100 consecutive postmenopausal women. The investigators also collected baseline measurements of serum lipids and insulin levels in the ...