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Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus

Vittorio Basevi
- 06 Feb 2011 - 
TLDR
The chronic hyperglycemia of diabetes is associated with long-term damage, dys-function, and failure of differentorgans, especially the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart, and blood vessels.
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This article is published in Diabetes Care.The article was published on 2011-02-06 and is currently open access. It has received 13077 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prediabetes & Impaired fasting glucose.

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The linkage between inflammation and Type 2 diabetes mellitus

TL;DR: The association of polymorphisms in genes encoding inflammatory cytokines and the increased level of these pro-inflammatory markers, associated to chronic pathologic conditions in DM2 are discussed.
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Post-transplant diabetes mellitus in patients with solid organ transplants

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Recommendations on screening for type 2 diabetes in adults.

TL;DR: This document updates the 2005 Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommendations on screening asymptomatic adults for type 2 diabetes and accepts glycated hemoglobin (herein referred to as A1C), which reflects an individual’s average plasma glucose level over the previous 2–3 months, as an alternative diagnostic test for type 1 diabetes.
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Metabolic syndrome associated with schizophrenia and atypical antipsychotics.

TL;DR: This work provides an overview specifically addressing why patients with schizophrenia are at increased risk for metabolic problems, how commonly used antipsychotic medications vary in terms of their metabolic liability, and how to effectively screen for and monitor metabolic problems in patients receiving antipsychotics.
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Pitfalls in the use of HbA 1c as a diagnostic test: the ethnic conundrum

TL;DR: The purpose of a diagnostic test is to identify individuals who have a disorder and reassure those who do not, and the use of HbA1c levels for diagnosing diabetes mellitus or prediabetes is ill-advised.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared a lifestyle intervention with metformin to prevent or delay the development of Type 2 diabetes in nondiabetic individuals. And they found that the lifestyle intervention was significantly more effective than the medication.
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International association of diabetes and pregnancy study groups recommendations on the diagnosis and classification of hyperglycemia in pregnancy.

TL;DR: The Brazilian study provided evidence that adverse perinatal outcomes are associated with levels of maternal glycemia below those diagnostic of GDM by American Diabetes Association or World Health Organization criteria, however, the results were potentially confounded by the treatment of G DM.
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TL;DR: The International Expert Committee was convened to reexamine the classification and diagnostic criteria of diabetes, which were based on the 1979 publication of the National Diabetes Data Group and subsequent WHO study group and adopted several changes to the diagnostic criteria for diabetes and for lesser degrees of impaired glucose regulation (IFG/IGT).
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