Postprandial serum C-peptide to plasma glucose ratio predicts future insulin therapy in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes

Acta Diabetologica

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 987-988

  Saisho, Yoshifumi ^a   Kou, Kinsei ^a   Tanaka, Kumiko ^a   Abe, Takayuki ^a   Shimada, Akira ^b   Kawai, Toshihide ^a   Itoh, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAISEIKAI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; SULFONYLUREA;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BODY MASS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INSULIN TREATMENT; JAPANESE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD GLUCOSE; C-PEPTIDE; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; PREDIABETIC STATE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84890565355     PISSN: 09405429     EISSN: 14325233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00592-012-0441-y     Document Type: Letter

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