Does "afternoon diabetes" predict diabetes?

Undiagnosed diabetes: does it matter?

BACKGROUND The 1998 Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of diabetes lowered the cutoff point for diagnosing diabetes mellitus from a fasting plasma glucose (FPG) level of 7.8 to 7.0 mmol/L. We studied the prevalence and clinical outcomes of undiagnosed and diagnosed diabetes within specific ranges of FPG among a cohort of subjects recruited in 1990. METHODS In 1990 a repr...

Does diabetes hide osteoarthritis pain?

Clinical practice and research efforts related to the highly prevalent and disabling disease, osteoarthritis (OA), have long been hampered by an inadequate case definition. Much of the difficulty is due to a lack of agreement between X-rays evidence of OA and a patient's report of pain at that site. Such discordance between reported pain and radiographic evidence of OA has been attributed to se...

Dermatoglyphics: A Diagnostic Tool to Predict Diabetes

Magnetic Nanoparticles Predict Diabetes Onset | HMS

Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a magnetic nanoparticle-based MRI technique for predicting whether—and when—subjects with a genetic predisposition for diabetes will develop the disease. While done initially in mice, preliminary data show that the platform can be used in people as well, so far to distinguish patients that do or do not hav...

Does pancreatic elastase-1 in stools predict steatorrhea in type 1 diabetes?

A reduction of exocrine pancreas function frequently occurs in type 1 diabetes (1), and its detection has been made easy by measurement of fecal pancreatic elastase-1 (PE-1) (2,3). We recently observed that PE-1 correlates in these patients with poor blood glucose control, diabetes duration, and residual -cell function (4). A possible consequence of severe pancreatic insufficiency is steatorrhe...