[Determination of carbohydrate tolerance disorders in mass epidemiologic studies]

The authors evaluated the informativeness of both the individual sugar curve levels and their combinations for determination of disturbed carbohydrate tolerance. It appeared that the most informative one was blood sugar level 1 hour after the glucose load, and the least--on fasting stomach. Regression equations permitting to restore the sugar curve in the presence of incomplete data with no lesser precision than the biological reproducibility were obtained. Due to the fact that statistical connection was detected between the individual levels a possibility of increasing the sensitivity of the method of disturbed carbohydrate tolerance determination (particularly in using the blood sugar level on fasting stomach and 2 hours after the glucose load) was revealed.