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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Familial aggregation ; diabetes mellitus ; nephropathy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Both non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and diabetic nephropathy show familial aggregation. If diabetes and renal disease have independent determinants (genetic or otherwise), offspring of parents with diabetic renal disease should have a similar risk of diabetes to those offspring of parents with diabetes alone. To test this hypothesis, the prevalence of diabetes was examined in a population-based pedigree study in Pima Indian offspring of three mutually exclusive parental types: 1) diabetic with renal disease, 2) diabetic, but without renal disease and 3) non-diabetic. Among offspring of one diabetic parent and one non-diabetic parent (n=320) the prevalence of diabetes at ages 15–24 years and 25–34 years was 0% and 11%, respectively if the diabetic parent did not have renal disease compared with 6% and 28% respectively if the diabetic parent did have renal disease. Corresponding rates for offspring of two diabetic parents (n=121) were 10% and 17%, respectively if neither parent had renal disease compared with 30% and 50%, respectively if one parent did have renal disease. The presence of renal disease in a parent with diabetes relative to diabetes alone was associated with 2.5 times the odds of diabetes (95% confidence interval 1.4–4.3) in the offspring controlled for age, age at onset of parental diabetes and diabetes in the other parent using logistic regression. These findings provide support for parental diabetic renal disease, independent of age at onset of parental diabetes, conferring an increased risk for diabetes in the offspring. The results are compatible with the hypothesis that the susceptibility to renal disease in the parents and to diabetes in the offspring are due to shared familial environmental factors or to the same gene or set of genes.
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    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Keywords Diabetes mellitus ; diagnosis ; oral glucose tolerance test ; fasting plasma glucose ; 2-h plasma glucose ; haemoglobin A1c ; retinopathy ; nephropathy ; complications.
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The current classification and diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus were introduced by the United States National Data Group in 1979 and endorsed by the World Health Organization in 1980, with modifications in 1985 and 1994. The criteria, chosen to reflect the risk of complications, were the synthesis of considerable thought and expertise and represented a consensus which, it was hoped, would prove helpful to all those involved with diabetes – practising clinician, research scientist and epidemiologist alike. The inconvenience, variability and nonphysiological nature of the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) are well-recognised. In spite of these limitations the 2-h post-load plasma glucose has remained the standard against which all other tests have been evaluated. This article reviews the original justification for the OGTT, and in the light of more recent epidemiological research seeks to place the current diagnostic criteria for diabetes into a pathophysiological, diagnostic and prognostic perspective. [Diabetologia (1997) 40: 247–255]
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