Impaired glucose tolerance is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, but not impaired fasting glucose. The Funagata Diabetes Study.

Tominaga, Masato; Eguchi, Hideyuki; Manaka, Hideo; Igarashi, Kazuhiko; Kato, Takeo; Sekikawa, Akira

doi:10.2337/diacare.22.6.920

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Impaired glucose tolerance is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, but not impaired fasting glucose. The Funagata Diabetes Study.

Published in Diabetes Care • Jun 1, 1999

Authors:

Masato Tominaga

Hideyuki Eguchi

Hideo Manaka

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the new category of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) recently proposed by the Expert Committee of the American Diabetes Association is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Death certificates and residence transfer documents from the coh...

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Medicine

Impaired fasting glucose

Hazard ratio

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