MCMASTER-LED STUDY IDENTIFIES SIMPLE PREDICTOR OF DIABETES RISK

摘要

McMaster University researchers have discovered a simple way to predict an adult's future risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.Their findings. published in the journal Diabetologia indicate that the blood glycaemia level at one hour after drinking a glucose solution of 75 grams beats every known Type 2 diabetes prediction model published to date. "Having the one-hour plasma glucose (1h-PG) information alone is sufficient to identify people who are more at risk for developing Type 2 diabetes in the future," explained David Meyre, the paper's senior author and an associate professor in the department of clinical epidemiology and bio-statistics at McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. "Only 30 per cent of non-diabetic middle-aged adults in the study displayed a high Ih-PG (higher than 8.9 mmol/l), but they accounted for 75 per cent of all future diabetic cases".