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| 2006 Core Curriculum |
| Targeting Insulin Resistance for Vascular Protection |
July 31, 2006
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Clinical Imperatives When Treating Patients with Diabetes
- Criteria for the diagnosis of diabetes include:
- - Symptoms of diabetes plus a casual plasma glucose concentration >200 mg/dL.
- - Or an FPG >126 mg/dL (following no caloric intake for >8 hours).
- -Or a 2-hour postload glucose >200 mg/dL during an OGTT. (The OGTT is not recommended for routine clinical use.)
- IFG and IGT identify an intermediate group of persons whose glucose levels, although not meeting the criteria for diabetes, are nevertheless too high to be considered normal.
- ADA criteria for IFG are somewhat lower than those of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and the American College of Endocrinology.
- Patients with IFG and/or IGT are now referred to as having "prediabetes," indicating that they are at relatively high risk for development of diabetes.
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