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2004 APR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Inflammatory markers predict risk of developing type 2 diabetes in women.
"We conducted a prospective, nested, case-control study of inflammatory markers as predictors of type 2 diabetes among 32,826 women who provided blood samples in 1989 through 1990 in the Nurses' Health Study. Among women free of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or cancer at baseline, 737 had developed diabetes by 2000. Control women (n=785) were selected matched on age, fasting status, race, and BMI for cases in the top BMI decile," investigators in the United States report.
"Baseline levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha receptor 2,…
Source: HighBeam Research, Inflammatory markers predict risk of type 2 diabetes in women.