Factors responsible for glucose intolerance in Japanese subjects with impaired fasting glucose. |
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Authors: | M Izuka M Fukushima A Taniguchi Y Nakai H Suzuki T Kawakita S Kawamata O Kajimoto K Tsuda N Nagaki M Murakami Y Seino |
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Affiliation: | Health Informatics Research Group, Translational Research Informatics Center, Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Kobe, Japan. |
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Abstract: | Impaired fasting glucose (IFG) represents risk of development of diabetes (DM) and its complications. We investigated insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity in 403 IFG subjects divided into three levels of 2-hour postchallenge glucose (2-h PG) to clarify the factors responsible in the development of glucose intolerance in Japanese IFG. Nearly 60% of the subjects at annual medical check-up with FPG of 6.1-7.0 mmol/l at the first screening were diagnosed by 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) to have impaired glucose tolerance (IGT; FPG <7.0 mmol/l and 7.8 mmol/l <2-h PG <11.1 mmol/l) or DM (isolated postchallenge hyperglycemia (IPH); FPG <7.0 mmol/l and 11.1 mmol/l <2-h PG level). The primary factor in the decreased glucose tolerance was a decrease in early-phase insulin, with some contribution of increasing insulin resistance. In addition, IFG/IGT and IFG/IPH subjects showed a compensatory increase in basal insulin secretion sufficient to keep FPG levels within the non-diabetic range. IFG is composed of three different categories in basal, early-phase insulin secretion, and insulin sensitivity. |
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