OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship between fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and shortened activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), an independent risk factor for thrombosis. DESIGN AND METHODS: We analyzed outpatients' results of coagulation tests and FPG. RESULTS: When compared with euglycemic subjects, those with impaired fasting glucose and diabetes displayed significantly shortened APTTs. CONCLUSIONS: This previously unreported association deserves scrutiny, because APTT is relatively inexpensive and it might identify diabetic patients at major risk of thrombosis.
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship between fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and shortened activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), an independent risk factor for thrombosis. DESIGN AND METHODS: We analyzed outpatients' results of coagulation tests and FPG. RESULTS: When compared with euglycemic subjects, those with impaired fasting glucose and diabetes displayed significantly shortened APTTs. CONCLUSIONS: This previously unreported association deserves scrutiny, because APTT is relatively inexpensive and it might identify diabeticpatients at major risk of thrombosis.
Authors: Richard Kd Ephraim; Yaw A Awuku; Patrick Adu; Lord Tw Ampomah; Prince Adoba; Solomon Panford; Jerry Pk Ninnoni; Hope Agbodzakey Journal: Ghana Med J Date: 2017-09
Authors: Jia Liu; Ben-Bo Gao; Allen C Clermont; Price Blair; Tamie J Chilcote; Sukanto Sinha; Robert Flaumenhaft; Edward P Feener Journal: Nat Med Date: 2011-01-23 Impact factor: 53.440