Women live longer than men and develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) at an older age.
The metabolic syndrome represents a major risk factor for the development of CVD, and …

Background Cardiovascular mortality risk increases continuously with blood glucose, from
concentrations well below conventional thresholds used to define diabetes. We aimed to …

Task Forces, expert groups, or consensus panels. The chosen experts in these writing
panels are asked to provide disclosure statements of all relationships they may have, which …

Background New diagnostic criteria for diabetes based on fasting blood glucose (FBG) level
were approved by the American Diabetes Association. The impact of using FBG only has not …

Background: Increasing evidence suggests a continuous relationship between blood
glucose concentrations and cardiovascular risk, even below diagnostic threshold levels for …

Objective: To examine the value of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) concentration, a marker
of blood glucose concentration, as a predictor of death from cardiovascular and all causes in …

Glucose tolerance and mortality: comparison of WHO and American Diabetes Association
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Aims/hypothesis. The degree of glycaemia has been shown to be associated with all-cause
and cardiovascular mortality in diabetic subjects. Whether this association also exists in the …

The application of epidemiology to the study of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
(NIDDM) is providing new insights into many aspects of this major public-health problem …

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between high but nondiabetic blood glucose levels
and the risk of death from all causes, coronary heart disease (CHD), cardiovascular disease …