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Abstract
This study included 28 healthy, non-diabetic and
not obese subjects (controls), group, I. Also, they
included 70 obese persons who were classified after
applying the National Diabetes Data group (1979) on
the results of their oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)
into three subgroups
Group, II included 29 persons who were obese with
normal glucose tolerance (NGT).
Group, III: included 2q obese subjects with impaired
glucose tolerance (IGT).
Group, IV: included 17 obese persons who were diabetics.
¥or the controls and all obese subjects, in addition
to OGTT, serum albumin and fructosamine levels were
estimated. The results of this study showed
1. Serum albumin in obese SUbjects with NGT, group, II
was not significantly different from the corresponding
levels of controls. While obese with IGT or who were
diabetics had significantly lower serum albumin than
controls or ob ••• with NGT.
2. Serum fructosamine levels were not correlated with age
or sex in all the investigated groups, but were positively
correlated with fasting plasma glucose levels
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in all the studied groups.
The fructosamine serum levels in obese subjects
with NGT or IGT were not significantly different from
the corresponding levels in controls. This results
points to a failure of this fructosamine test to detect
cases of impaired glucose tolerance.
However, the 17 obese diabetics investigated in
this study, who were all uncontrolled, showed serum
fructosamine levels above the range of control subjects
(18 -37 mg.!dl.). This finding pOints’to the
ability of usage of this test as a diagnostic aid for
differentiation between glucose intolerance and frank
diabetes mellitus in obese subjects.