some recent studies have revealed the relationship among excess ferritin, coronary heart disease, and insulin resistance. to assess the association between serum ferritin concentration and impaired fasting glucose, this study was designed. a total of 187 people including 91 impaired fasting glucose (ifg) subjects and 96 normal glucose subjects who had been recognized in a large epidemiological ...

Postprandial ghrelin suppression arises from the interaction of meal contents with the small intestine and may relate to elevations in blood glucose and/or plasma insulin. We sought to determine whether the suppression of ghrelin by small intestinal glucose is dependent on the glucose load and can be accounted for by changes in blood glucose and/or plasma insulin. Blood glucose, plasma insulin,...

abstract background: gestational diabetes is the second common disorder in pregnancy period, which is detected in 24-28 weeks of gestational age through screening tests in low-risk women. the women with gestational diabetes are prone to prenatal mortality and development of future diabetes. therefore, detection of these individuals in the fi rst trimester and conducting preventive interventions...

AIM To analyze the relationship between age and plasma glucose levels in Hong Kong Chinese population. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study with 15,603 non-diabetic subjects from the community of Hong Kong. Plasma glucose concentration was measured in blood specimens from the subjects. The time of blood taking varied, depending on the availability of the patients. RESULTS There were...

Introduction Cerebral glucose levels in humans can be measured non-invasively by C MRS to determine the kinetics of glucose transport into the brain. This transport can be described by a reversible Michaelis-Menten (MM) model [1], which is characterized by a half-maximal transport constant (Kt) and maximal transport rate (Tmax) or maximal transport rate relative to CMRglc (Tmax/CMRglc). Several...

We examined the ability of an equivalent increase in circulating glucose concentrations to inhibit endogenous glucose production (EGP) and to stimulate glucose metabolism in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). Somatostatin was infused in the presence of basal replacements of glucoregulatory hormones and plasma glucose was maintained either at 90 or 180 mg/dl. Overnight low-dose insuli...

BACKGROUND Analyses of the distribution and elimination of glucose 2.5% solutions can be used to suggest combinations of infusion rates and infusion times which yield a predetermined plasma glucose level and degree of plasma dilution during surgery. METHODS Twelve patients aged between 27 and 51 (mean 40) underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy. An i.v. infusion of 1.4 litres of glucose 2.5% o...