Status:

COMPLETED

Skin Autofluorescence (AF) Decision Tree in Detecting Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) or Diabetes Mellitus (DM)

Lead Sponsor:

University Medical Center Groningen

Conditions:

Diabetes Mellitus

Impaired Glucose Tolerance

Eligibility:

All Genders

20+ years

Brief Summary

Early detection of (pre)diabetes, including impaired glucose tolerance is currently deficient because the best accepted standard, an oral glucose tolerance test (oGTT), is not feasible in a setting of...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • age \>20 years
  • additionally a priori intermediate risk for IGT/diabetes: by having at least one criterion from the metabolic syndrome, or by at least once having had an increased glucose or glycated hemoglobin value in the preceding two years, but these outside the range of diabetes/IGT

Exclusion

  • known diabetes mellitus
  • use of oral antidiabetics for other purposes than diabetes such as hepatic steatosis
  • local skin disease of the lower arm obviating skin autofluorescence measurement
  • known serious renal insufficiency (s-creatinine \> 180 umol/l).
  • inability to fill in questionnaires

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 1 2010

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

April 1 2011

Estimated Enrollment :

218 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01406665

Start Date

October 1 2010

End Date

April 1 2011

Last Update

August 1 2011

Active Locations (2)

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1

Gelre Ziekenhuis

Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands, 7334 DZ

2

University Medical Center Groningen

Groningen, Provincie Groningen, Netherlands, 9700 RB