Diabetes Care, Vol 8, Issue 4 380-384, Copyright © 1985 by American Diabetes Association

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Glucose tolerance in granuloma annulare

GS Kidd, GE Graff, BF Davies, MT McDermott, JL Aeling and FD Hofeldt

Granuloma annulare (GA) may be associated with glucose intolerance. Twenty-one patients with GA were evaluated. Four patients were found to have frank diabetes mellitus and 2 were excluded from the data analysis because of obesity. The remaining patients and 14 age- and weight-matched controls had oral and intravenous glucose tolerance tests (GTT). During the oral GTT the fasting plasma glucose, the 2-h plasma glucose, the area of the glucose curve, the 1-h serum insulin, and the area of the insulin curve were all significantly greater in the GA patients than in the controls. During the intravenous GTT the immediately releasable insulin pool was intact, while the fasting plasma glucose and the area of the glucose curve were greater in the GA patients than in the controls. The data taken together suggest that glucose tolerance may be reduced in GA and that insulin resistance may exist.
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