We can barely cope with the increase in GTT requests since the last 'new'
criteria
Perhaps this is only a means of increasing previously non-existant waiting
lists in pathology so that we can be assessed for star ratings.
I wonder what the QC precisions were like for the laboratories involved in
the data gathering for the study. Did the researchers take into account
plasma/serum/blood factors, because there is no doubt that GPs etc doing
their own POC glucoses are often not aware of the significance.
with best wishes
Richard
Richard Mainwaring-Burton
Consultant Biochemist
Queen Mary's Hospital
Sidcup, Kent
DA14 6LT
020-8308-3084
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From: Mohammad Al-Jubouri [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 28 October 2003 11:26
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Subject: 5.6 mmol/L is new cutoff for IFG
An international expert committee on the diagnosis and
classification of diabetes mellitus has published
revised guidelines, which incorporate new data since
the last report of 1997, in the November issue of
Diabetes Care. Decreasing the cutoff for impaired
fasting glucose from 110 mg/dL to 100 mg/dL could
increase diagnoses of prediabetes by approximately
20%.
The other diagnostic thresholds remained the same.
Mohammad
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Consultant Chemical Pathologist
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