RESEARCH ARTICLE
A Simple Method of Determining Pre-Diabetes
Joon Hyuck Choi1, Nam Lyong Kang2, *
1 Department of Internal Medicine, Hankuk Hospital, Osan 447-804, Republic of Korea (Previous Address: Department
of Internal Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu 712-702, Republic of Korea).
2 Department of Nano Medical Engineering, Pusan National University, Miryang 627-706, Republic of Korea.
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2009Volume: 2
First Page: 29
Last Page: 31
Publisher Id: TODIAJ-2-29
DOI: 10.2174/1876524600902010029
Article History:
Received Date: 22/09/2008Revision Received Date: 18/02/2009
Acceptance Date: 23/02/2009
Electronic publication date: 7/4/2009
Collection year: 2009
© 2009 Hyuck Choi et al.
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
A simple formula for determining pre-diabetes (the very early stage of diabetes mellitus) was derived from the model of Ackerman et al. [Bull Math Biophys 1965; 27: s21-37] for very smoothly varying time course patterns of blood glucose level. The natural period of blood glucose level in a healthy subject calculated using the formula was in good agreement with the value obtained by computer work.
Keywords: Pre-diabetes, blood glucose level, natural period.