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Diabetes Care, Vol 21, Issue 3 360-367, Copyright © 1998 by American Diabetes Association
High blood glucose concentration is a risk factor for mortality in middle-aged nondiabetic men. 20-year follow-up in the Whitehall Study, the Paris Prospective Study, and the Helsinki Policemen Study
B Balkau, M Shipley, RJ Jarrett, K Pyorala, M Pyorala, A Forhan and E Eschwege
INSERM U21, Villejuif, France. balkau@vjf.inserm.fr
OBJECTIVE: To assess the association between high but nondiabetic blood
glucose levels and the risk of death from all causes, coronary heart
disease (CHD), cardiovascular disease, and neoplasms. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
METHODS: We studied the 20-year mortality of non-diabetic, working men, age
44-55 years, in three European cohorts known as the Whitehall Study (n =
10,025), the Paris Prospective Study (n = 6,629), and the Helsinki
Policeman Study (n = 631). These men were identified by their 2-h glucose
levels following an oral glucose tolerance test and by the absence of a
prior diagnosis of diabetes. As the protocol for the oral glucose tolerance
test and methods for measuring glucose differed between studies, mortality
was analyzed according to the percentiles of the 2-h and fasting glucose
distributions, using the Cox's proportional hazards model. RESULTS: Men in
the upper 20% of the 2-h glucose distributions and those in the upper 2.5%
for fasting glucose had a significantly higher risk of all-cause mortality
in comparison with men in the lower 80% of these distributions, with
age-adjusted hazard ratios of 1.6 (95% CI 1.4-1.9) and 2.0 (1.6-2.6) for
the upper 2.5%. For death from cardiovascular and CHD, men in the upper
2.5% of the 2-h and fasting glucose distributions were at higher risk, with
age-adjusted hazard ratios for CHD of 1.8 (1.4-2.4) and 2.7 (1.7-4.4),
respectively. CONCLUSIONS: If early intervention aimed at lowering blood
glucose concentrations can be shown to reduce mortality, it may be
justified to lower the levels of both 2-h and fasting glucose, which define
diabetes.

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