6 minutes are reporting: Lower glycaemic cut-off for diabetes Quote: The glycaemic threshold for diagnosing diabetes mellitus should be lowered from 7.0 to 6.5 mmol/L, endocrinologists say, because this better reflects the risk of microvascular complications such as retinopathy. The current glycaemic cut-off points for diabetes were derived from rates of all-cause retinopathy in Pima Indian and Egyptians, and should be updated to reflect rates of diabetes-specific retinopathy in wider populations, says Professor Stepehn Colagiuri of the University of Sydney. Link
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Lower glycaemic cut-off for diabetes
