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Increased serum calcium levels independently predict the risk for type 2 diabetes, a new analysis from the ongoing Prevención Dieta Mediterránea (PREDIMED) study suggests.
The results were published online August 19 in Diabetes Care by dietician and predoctoral student Nerea Becerra-Tomás, of the Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, and colleagues.
"Fasting glucose is, at the moment, the main risk factor for type 2 diabetes, and the diagnosis is based on it. However, after adjusting for glucose, our results demonstrated a role for serum calcium independent of glucose.... Measurement [of serum calcium] could add significance to measurement of fasting glucose," study coauthor Mònica Bulló, PhD, professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain, told Medscape Medical News.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/830346
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The results were published online August 19 in Diabetes Care by dietician and predoctoral student Nerea Becerra-Tomás, of the Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, and colleagues.
"Fasting glucose is, at the moment, the main risk factor for type 2 diabetes, and the diagnosis is based on it. However, after adjusting for glucose, our results demonstrated a role for serum calcium independent of glucose.... Measurement [of serum calcium] could add significance to measurement of fasting glucose," study coauthor Mònica Bulló, PhD, professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain, told Medscape Medical News.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/830346
(free registration)