Agreement between fingertip-capillary and antecubital-venous appetite-related peptides.

Table 1. Mean Glucose Concentrations in Capillary and Venous Blood in the Study Sample

The oral glucose tolerance test (OG’VF) currently is frequently used to screen for individuals with impaired glucose metabolism. To improve the reproducibility as well as the predictive value of the test, it is important to control as many external sources of variability as possible. Three major factors influencing glucose values are the laboratory procedure used, the type of sample analyzed (w...

Table 1. Mean Glucose Concentrations in Capillary and Venous Blood in the Study Sample

The oral glucose tolerance test (OG’VF) currently is frequently used to screen for individuals with impaired glucose metabolism. To improve the reproducibility as well as the predictive value of the test, it is important to control as many external sources of variability as possible. Three major factors influencing glucose values are the laboratory procedure used, the type of sample analyzed (w...

Venous and capillary whole blood glucose from the fingertip D. Type of Test: Quantitative amperometric assay, glucose dehydrogenase (mutant GDH-PQQ) E. Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Corporation F. Proprietary and Established Names: ACCU-CHEK Performa Blood Glucose Monitoring System

Direct measurement of cell-free DNA from serially collected capillary plasma during incremental exercise.

To investigate the kinetics of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) due to exercise, we established a direct real-time PCR for the quantification of cfDNA from unpurified capillary plasma by amplification of a 90- and a 222-bp multilocus L1PA2 sequence. Twenty-six male athletes performed an incremental treadmill test. For cfDNA measurement, capillary samples were collected serially from the fingertip preexerc...

Postprandial glucose, insulin and glucagon-like peptide 1 responses to sucrose ingested with berries in healthy subjects.

Berries are often consumed with sucrose. They are also rich sources of polyphenols which may modulate glycaemia after carbohydrate ingestion. The present study investigated the postprandial glucose, insulin and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) responses to sucrose ingested with berries, in comparison with a similar sucrose load without berries. A total of twelve healthy subjects were recruited t...