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Clinical impact of the new criteria for the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus.
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine - 1 Sept 2003
Kernohan Andrew F B, Perry Colin G, Small Michael
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In 1997 the American Diabetes Association lowered the threshold for diagnosis of diabetes from a fasting plasma glucose concentration of 7.8 mmol/l to 7.0 mmol/l and advised that the oral glucose tolerance test no longer be used in routine clinical practice. In 1999 the World Health Organization endorsed the reduction in fasting plasma glucose threshold but recommended retaining the oral glucose tolerance test...
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