ea0009p6 | Diabetes and metabolism | BES2005
Al|#Saraj F
, King T
, Corbett M
, Dillion D
, Mc|#Ateer S
, Tormey W
, Sreenan S
Recently the American Diabetes Association (ADA) adopted a lower cut off for (IFG) Impaired fasting glucose (greater than or equal to 5.6 millimol per litre). We suggested that performing oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT), in all subjects with IFG according to the new ADA criteria, would result in very little new diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and to test this hypothesis we reviewed our recent experience with OGTTs.Between August 2001 and June 200...