Diabetes
Scientists at Kaiser Permanente publish new data on diabetes
Published in Lab Business Week, April 20th, 2008
In this recent article published in the journal Medical Care, scientists in the United States conducted a study "To estimate the resource utilization and medical costs of patients with impaired fasting glucose (IFG), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), or both, in a real-world clinical setting. We used fasting and random glucose test results and a previously validated predictive equation to identify glycemic status in 26,111 nondiabetic patients, assigning them to categories of normoglycemia, isolated IFG (I-IFG), isolated IGT (I-IGT), or IFG with possible IGT (IFG/IGT)."
"We then calculated and compared mean annual medical resource utilization and...
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Source: Lab Business Week (2008-04-20)
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