Type 2 Diabetes can be diagnosed 10 yrs before blood level elevations of glucose

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In patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, elevations in blood levels of glucose and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) can be seen as much as 10 years earlier, Esther van ‘t Riet, PhD, from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, told attendees during a poster session here at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes 47th Annual Meeting. She said that after moderate increases, the levels rise rapidly during the few years leading up to the diagnosis, often with an increase in HbA1c preceding a rise in glucose.

Dr. van ‘t Riet and coworkers analyzed data from the Hoorn Study, a Dutch population-based cohort of people 50 to 75 years of age at baseline in 1989, with follow-up encounters in 1996 and 2000. The analysis consisted of 565 participants without diabetes at baseline.

Ref and Read more: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/749904?sssdmh=dm1.719673&src=nldne

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