Progression to clinically diagnosed and treated diabetes from impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glycaemia. |
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Authors: | Q. Qiao J. Lindström T. T. Valle J. Tuomilehto |
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Affiliation: | Diabetes and Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland. qing.qiao@ktl.fi |
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Abstract: | AIMS: To evaluate the risk of diabetes in subjects with impaired fasting glycemia (IFG) as compared with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and normal glucose tolerance. METHODS: Men (1223) and women (1370) aged 45-64 years and free of diabetes at baseline were followed-up for 10 years, with 26 737 person years accumulated. The incident diabetic cases were identified through the national Drug Register and the Hospital Discharge Register. RESULTS: During the 10 years of follow-up, 53 (4.3%) men and 47 (3.4%) women developed diabetes. IFG alone defined 22 (15.5/1000 person years) diabetic cases, which was higher than for subjects with normal fasting glucose. Subjects with isolated IGT identified an additional 34 cases (155% more) which could not be defined by IFG alone. The area under the ROC curve was larger for 2-h glucose (0.77, 95% CI 0.72-0.82) than for fasting glucose (0.65, 0.58-0.71). The multivariate adjusted Cox hazard ratio was higher for isolated IGT (3.9, 95% CI 2.4-6.2) than for isolated IFG (2.3, 0.9-5.7) as compared with subjects with neither IFG nor IGT. CONCLUSION: Both IFG and IGT are risk predictors for diabetes, but IGT defines a much larger target population for prevention. |
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Keywords: | area under ROC curve hazard ratio impaired fasting glycemia impaired glucose tolerance incidence of diabetes risk predictor ROC curve |
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