BACKGROUND The Accu-Chek Inform glucose monitor is a point-of-care system for testing blood glucose. New test strips, calibrated to deliver glucose plasma-like values, were launched on the market in May 2005. The aim of our study was to perform analytical validation of these new strips. METHODS We compared the new plasma strips with whole blood strips; results for the plasma strips with plasm...

BACKGROUND There is a direct correlation between glycemic load and the risk of developing many malignant neoplasms. AIMS The aim of this study was to determine the plasma glucose levels in women with cervical cancer. METHODS The study included 177 women with anatomopathologically diagnosed uterine cervical cancer (stages 0-IV) treated between 1980 and 2008 at the Gynecology and Obstetrics o...

Intravenous administration of galanin into fasted conscious dogs produced a dose-dependent hyperglycemia accompanied by decreases in plasma insulin levels, but with no elevation of plasma glucagon levels. Galanin infusions produced greater parenteral glucose-induced rises in plasma glucose levels along with markedly blunted insulin responses compared with glucose and insulin responses to contro...

The involvement of circulatory glucose in the energy provision of skeletal muscle and heart of swimming carp was examined. Plasma glucose concentration varied from 3 to 17 mM among individual carp, and estimates of glucose turnover rate (RT) were positively correlated with plasma glucose level in resting fish (range 1.6-6.3 mumol.min-1.kg-1) and in swimming fish (range 4.2-10.7 mumol.min-1.kg-1...

Several aspects of Western diets, alcohol use, and exercise patterns which are related to the risk of colorectal cancer have systemic effects in common. Those which increase the risk of colorectal cancer are positively associated with serum triglycerides and plasma glucose; those which decrease risk are negatively associated with serum triglycerides and plasma glucose. These observations sugges...

High-dose intravenous infusion of 5% glucose promotes rebound hypoglycaemia and hypovolaemia in healthy volunteers. To study whether such effects occur in response to glucose/insulin, 12 healthy firemen (mean age, 39 years) received three infusions over 1-2 h that contained 20 ml of 2.5% glucose/kg of body weight, 5 ml of 10% glucose/kg of body weight with 0.05 unit of rapid-acting insulin/kg o...

BACKGROUND Helicobacter pylori infection raises basal and meal stimulated serum gastrin concentrations and lowers iron stores, which may in turn reduce fasting plasma glucose concentrations in the population. AIM To determine whether H pylori infection leads to lower fasting plasma glucose concentrations in the population. METHODS One hundred and seventy three women and 165 men, randomly se...

Acute effects of a single intravenous injection of hydralazine (20 mg./Kg.) on heart rate, femoral arterial blood pressure, glucose turnover (technique of priming injection-continuous infusion of glucose-U-C”) and plasma lipids and catecholamines were studied in 15 anesthetized dogs. In 6 of the dogs, 3 received isotonic saline solution and 3 received hydralazine diluent. These control dogs had...

The link between glucose and HbA1c at steady state has previously been described using steady-state or longitudinal relationships. We evaluated five published methods for prediction of HbA1c after 26/28 weeks using data from four clinical trials. Methods (1) and (2): steady-state regression of HbA1c on fasting plasma glucose and mean plasma glucose, respectively, (3) an indirect response model ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate how renal loss of both C-peptide and glucose during oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) relate to and affect plasma-derived oral minimal model (OMM) indices. All individuals were recruited during family screening between August 2007 and January 2011 and underwent a 3.5-h OGTT, collecting nine plasma samples and urine during OGTT. We obtained the follo...