Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) allows classification of subjects in 3 groups, depending on glycaemia 120 minutes after 75 g glucose ingestion: normal (glycaemia < 1.4 g/L), glucose intolerant (1.4–2 g/L) and diabetic (>2 g/L). Five insulin profiles associated with different incidence rates of diabetes over 10 years of follow-up have also previously been described. Insulin measurement is very sensible to hemolysis and can advantageously be replace...