Report: Pre-Diabetes More Than Doubles Risk of Heart Disease Death

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"Moreover, diabetes and pre-diabetes [impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose] accounted for 65 percent of all heart disease deaths in the study of 10,429 Australians."

Impaired glucose tolerance, by contrast, was associated with a 20 percent increase in risk of cardiac mortality, which was not statistically significant, unlike impaired fasting glucose and known diabetes, which were both independent predictors of heart disease death. Impaired glucose tolerance was, however, predictive of all-cause mortality.

Impaired fasting glucose was defined as a glucose concentration of 6.1 mmol/l or higher, but less than 7.0 mmol/l, and two-hour plasma glucose of less than 7.8 mmol/l. Impaired glucose tolerance was defined as two-hour plasma glucose of at least 7.8 mmol/l, but less than 11.1 mmol/l and fasting plasma glucose of less than 7.0 mmol/l.

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Report: Pre-Diabetes More Than Doubles Risk of Heart Disease Death

DALLAS - The risk of dying from heart disease increases with the earliest sign that the body is having trouble metabolizing glucose, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American H...

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