Reversion from prediabetes to normoglycaemia and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality: the Whitehall II cohort study.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Niels Steensens Vej 6, DK-2820, Gentofte, Denmark. [Email]

Abstract

Reversion from prediabetes to normoglycaemia is accompanied by an improvement in cardiovascular risk factors, but it is unclear whether this translates into a reduction in risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events or death. Hence, we studied the probability of reversion from prediabetes to normoglycaemia and the associated risk of future CVD and death using data from the Whitehall II observational cohort study.

Keywords

2 h Plasma glucose,Cardiovascular disease,Fasting plasma glucose,HbA1c,Mortality,Normoglycaemia,Prediabetes,Reversion,