Lowering the Criterion for Impaired Fasting Glucose Will Not Provide Clinical Benefit

Diabetes Care

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3329-3330

  Davidson, Mayer B ^a   Landsman, Pamela B ^b   Alexander, Charles M ^b  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIET RESTRICTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; NOTE; PREDICTION;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FASTING; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0344980071     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.26.12.3329     Document Type: Note

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