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High Blood Glucose Concentration Is a Risk Factor for Mortality in Middle-Aged Nondiabetic Men: 20-year follow-up in the Whitehall Study, the Paris Prospective Study, and the Helsinki Policemen Study

Beverley Balkau, Martin Shipley, R John Jarrett, Kalevi Pyörälà, Marja Pyörälä, Anne Forhan, É. Eschwège

Diabetes Care · 1998 · 599 citations · 14 references

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Abstract

If early intervention aimed at lowering blood glucose concentrations can be shown to reduce mortality, it may be justified to lower the levels of both 2-h and fasting glucose, which define diabetes.

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Report of the Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus

Diabetes Care · 2002 · 10.4K citations

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Myocardial infarction and coronary deaths in the World Health Organization MONICA Project. Registration procedures, event rates, and case-fatality rates in 38 populations from 21 countries in four continents.

H Tunstall-Pedoe, Kari Kuulasmaa, Philippe Amouyel et al. · Circulation · 1994 · 2.3K citations

Cardiovascular risk factors in confirmed prediabetic individuals. Does the clock for coronary heart disease start ticking before the onset of clinical diabetes?

S M Haffner · JAMA · 1990 · 999 citations

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CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE RISK AND IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE The Whitehall Study

JohnH. Fuller, MartinJ. Shipley, Geoffrey Rose et al. · The Lancet · 1980 · 794 citations

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Relationship of plasma insulin levels to the incidence of myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease mortality in a middle-aged population

Pierre Ducimetière, É. Eschwège, L Papoz et al. · Diabetologia · 1980 · 752 citations · Full text

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