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ea0067o57 | Oral Presentations | EYES2019

βeta-hydroxybutyrate and risk for incident type 2 diabetes: results from the prevend prospective cohort study

Flores-Guerrero Jose L , Connelly Margery A , Groothof Dion , Gruppen Eke G , Bakker Stephan JL , Dullaart Robin PF

Objective: A potential role for the ketone body beta-hydroxybutyrate (β-OHB) has received increasing interest in the study of metabolic disease, but the association of β-OHB with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) risk remains unclear. The present study aimed to explore the association of β-OHB with incident T2D in a prospective population-based cohort.Methods: We measured plasma concentrations of β-OHB using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscop...