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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-5-12
pubmed:abstractText
Patients' perceptions that clinic fasting blood glucose measurements in Type 2 diabetes are artefactually high were investigated. Eighteen men and 14 women in the Salford cohort of the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) with a median age of 51 (range 37-69) years measured their fasting blood glucose concentration at home with visually read sticks or meters; they then collected capillary blood into fluoride tubes both at home and in clinic after a median lapse of 77 (range 25-173) min. The clinic samples were measured immediately and after a time lapse equivalent to the time taken to reach clinic to control for continued glycolysis in the home sample. Mean fasting blood glucose was 5.9 +/- 1.9 mmol 1(-1) by the patients' own measurement and 6.0 +/- 1.8 mmol 1(-1) on the home collected sample compared with 6.2 +/- 2.0 mmol 1(-1) and 6.1 +/- 2.0 mmol 1(-1) on the hospital immediate and time-lapsed measurements, respectively (p > 0.05 for all comparisons between home and hospital measurements); although there were no systematic differences, occasional measurements differed more than 2 mmol 1(-1). These data support the use of the fasting blood glucose level as a stable, patient-independent measure of glycaemic control in Type 2 diabetes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0742-3071
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
74-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
'Hospital hyperglycaemia'; perception or reality?
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Endocrinology, Hope Hospital, Salford, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Multicenter Study