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Published on: January 7, 2018
Impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance in urban population in India
A Ramachandran1, C Snehalatha, K Satyavani
1Diabetes Research Centre & M.V. Hospital for Diabetes, Royapuram, Chennai, India. ramachandran@vsnl.com
Aims:
To study prevalence of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in urban Indians and their demographic and anthropometric characteristics.
Methods:
Data on capillary blood glucose (OGTT), anthropometric and demography details were available in 10 025 subjects (M : F 4711 : 5314) aged > or = 20 years. Glucose tolerance was categorized as normal, isolated IFG, isolated IGT, IFG + IGT and diabetes using the fasting and 2-h blood glucose (2hBG; 75-g glucose load) values. Subjects with known diabetes were excluded.
Results:
Age-standardized prevalences of IFG, IGT and newly detected diabetes were 8.7%, 8.1% and 13.9%, respectively. IFG was more prevalent in women (9.8%) than in men (7.4%) (chi2 = 13.62, P = 0.0002), while the gender differences in IGT (men 8.4%, women 7.9%) and diabetes (men 13.3%, women 14.3%) were not significant. Body mass index and waist circumference were higher in glucose-intolerant groups than in normal glucose tolerance (NGT). Prevalence of diabetes, IGT and IFG + IGT increased with age. Among the IFG, 4% had diabetes and 27.1% had IGT using 2hBG criteria. In IFG, the fasting and 2hBG values were not correlated.
Conclusions:
Prevalences of IFG and IGT were similar in urban Indians and an overlap occurred in only less than half of these subjects. IFG was more common in women. Subjects with IFG were older and had more adverse anthropometric characteristics in comparison with NGT. IFG did not show an increasing trend with age.
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