tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post2867835048767292980..comments2023-10-23T11:24:13.532-04:00Comments on Diabetes Update: EASD: Why the OGTT Fails to Predict Heart Attack and Why this Harms PeopleJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-47244931425141871802007-10-01T22:31:00.000-04:002007-10-01T22:31:00.000-04:00I'm going through this right now, I went to the do...I'm going through this right now, I went to the doctor, feeling I have insulin resistence. I'm clocking my sugar readings from 120 up to 170 2 hours after eating carb meals. I'm pretty careful about not eating high empty sugar.<BR/><BR/>My doctor runs an A1C, not a OGTT, or even a fasting sugar which isn't going to show one way or another about the insulin resistence. (it was 5.7 up .1 from Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01770314667544513982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-62699566394149836702007-09-27T15:47:00.000-04:002007-09-27T15:47:00.000-04:00Anna,I plan to read the Taubes book. I'm familiar ...Anna,<BR/><BR/>I plan to read the Taubes book. I'm familiar with his "what if it's all been a big fat lie" article.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-25850796556271604482007-09-27T14:53:00.000-04:002007-09-27T14:53:00.000-04:00Jenny,Have you had a chance to pick up a copy of G...Jenny,<BR/><BR/>Have you had a chance to pick up a copy of GAry Taubes' new book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Nutrition, and Disease? It's on bookshelves now. It's right up your alley!<BR/><BR/>I'm thinking about sending a copy to both my primary care doctor as well as my endocrinologist.<BR/>Taubes is an award winning free-lance journalist with Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17033443643442246531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-38632799666082355662007-09-27T10:24:00.000-04:002007-09-27T10:24:00.000-04:00I think you are slightly misunderstanding the rese...I think you are slightly misunderstanding the researchers. They do say they think that HbA1C is probably a marker (as you say) but in the same sentence they say that they think glucose is probably a mediator. Also this page makes their position clear<BR/><BR/>http://www.theheart.org/article/813843.do<BR/>"The clinical meaning of this is that, even in subjects without diabetes, it is very paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11319278202196461941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-32378526139551821502007-09-26T21:16:00.000-04:002007-09-26T21:16:00.000-04:00lili,By the ADA's definition, Impaired glucose tol...lili,<BR/><BR/>By the ADA's definition, Impaired glucose tolerance is defined by a 2 hour OGTT result over 140 mg/dl. <BR/><BR/>Anything under that is treated as "normal." It is only now that we are getting the continuous glucose monitor studies that we are starting to have some understanding of what normal is.<BR/><BR/>But because for almost 30 years they have been using that 2 hour value for Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-10329795807306382702007-09-26T20:39:00.000-04:002007-09-26T20:39:00.000-04:00What? They only looked at the two hour number? I'v...What? They only looked at the two hour number? I've heard that the spike is usually at one hour until you're diabetic, when it changes to two hours, and that was certainly true for me.Lilihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00941594110486613388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-81697203752215909452007-09-26T13:56:00.000-04:002007-09-26T13:56:00.000-04:00Chez Shoes (love the shoes!),It's never too late t...Chez Shoes (love the shoes!),<BR/><BR/>It's never too late to get back in control. And you can reverse almost all of the early damage caused by high blood sugars. <BR/><BR/>I had a very similar situation except that I actually tested "pre-diabetic" in my 20s but doctors told me that because I was thin it "was nothing" and to ignore it. I was eating the old "healthy whole grains" hippie diet fullJennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-74340601906808079382007-09-26T13:09:00.000-04:002007-09-26T13:09:00.000-04:00"So what typically happens is that the person with..."So what typically happens is that the person with marginal blood sugar control--the 5.5% A1c that marks a higher risk of heart attack--will get a very high blood sugar reading at 1 hour only to have the blood sugar plummet in the second hour. it is quite possible to have a normal or even a low blood sugar two hours after taking an OGTT where the one hour value was over 200 mg/dl (11.1 mmol/L)."<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com