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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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Antidiabetic and antihyperlipidemic activity of Piper longum root aqueous extract in STZ induced diabetic rats.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the plant extract is capable of managing hyperglycemia and complications of diabetes in STZ induced diabetic rats and may be considered as one of the potential sources for the isolation of new oral anti hypoglycemic agent(s).
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Glycated haemoglobin A1c for diagnosing diabetes in Chinese population: cross sectional epidemiological survey

TL;DR: An HbA1c threshold of 6.3% was highly specific for detecting undiagnosed diabetes in Chinese adults and had sensitivity similar to that of using a fasting plasma glucose threshold of 7.0 mmol/l, which may be suitable as a diagnostic criterion for diabetes when fasting Plasma glucose and oral glucose tolerance tests are not available.
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Upper limits of normal for alanine aminotransferase activity in the United States population

TL;DR: Alanine aminotransferase discriminates persons infected with HCV from those at low risk of liver disease, but would be considered elevated in a large proportion of the U.S. population.
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Rare and Common Genetic Events in Type 2 Diabetes: What Should Biologists Know?

TL;DR: The present review wishes to lift the fog around genetics of T2D with the hope that it will foster integrated diabetes modeling approaches from genetic defects to personalized medicine.
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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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