Fortunately the report is American and can therefore be ignored until they
bulldoze the UN again.
Of course the cynical amongst us may suggest that lowering the cut off is of
benefit to US physicians who suddenly have an extra cohort of patients to
leech off; and since they have very marginal (if any) disease, their
inclusion in disease registers will have the added benefit of demonstrating
that survival in diabetes is improving with the introduction of new
treatments. We may even see the same effect as in lipids where AFTexCaps
showed that no matter how low your cholesterol is, it is better to be lower;
and so they will start to put glitazones in the water supply...
TIM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Kilpatrick [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 28 October 2003 13:12
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 5.6 mmol/L is new cutoff for IFG
>
>
> We used to have our diabetes cut-offs based on a conversion
> of imperial
> units to SI. Now that it is the other way around, I wondered
> how long it
> would take someone to try and change them back!
>
> Eric
> Dr. Eric S. Kilpatrick
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mohammad Al-Jubouri <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:25 AM
> Subject: 5.6 mmol/L is new cutoff for IFG
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>
> > 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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