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Diabetes Diagnosis
Reproducibility of diabetes diagnosis in women reported
May 31st, 2004
Investigators report the reproducibility of a diabetes diagnosis in women using the World Health Organization (WHO) 1999 criteria. "Reproducibility of diabetes mellitus (DM) diagnosis has been recognized as non-optimal and a few studies have analyzed its reproducibility using new diagnostic criteria. Our aim was to evaluate the reproducibility of WHO 1999 criteria for DM diagnosis in women. A total of 696 Caucasian women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) underwent an OGTT at a median of 6.2 years (interquartile range, 0.5-7.3) after delivery," scientists in Spain report. "When OGTT was diagnostic of DM, a second test was scheduled and...
Source: Obesity & Diabetes Week (2004-05-31)
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