Health Update

by Jennifer Ong

The textbooks are wrong. It’s more normal to be glucose abnormal if you have cardiovascular disease,” remarks Professor Eberhard Standl at a conference attended by media people, including this writer, recently at the Pudong Shangri-La hotel in Shanghai. His colleagues looked on agreeably. In fact, Professors Rury Holman, DaYi Hu, Robert Josse, and Changyu Pan have also conducted their own respective studies and arrived at the same conclusion.

Dysglycemia is a condition where one possesses above normal glucose levels. A person with dysglycemia may have either prediabetes (higher than normal blood sugar level, but lower than that of a diabetic) or diabetes (particularly type 2). Such is found through various tests, the most effective of which is the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT), as recommended by Professor DaYi Hu. (more…)