Endocrine Abstracts

Undiagnosed diabetes and impaired fasting glucose, a condition that increases the risk for diabetes, have important health consequence. About one-third diabetes was undiagnosed. Thus, prevalence estimates based on self-report or doctor diagnosed disease are underestimates of total prevalence of diabetes, which includes individuals with both known and undiagnosed type 2 diabetes. To examine the prevalence of undiagnosed glucose intolerance, we did 75 g oral glucose tolerance te...