Opportunistic Screening for Prediabetes and Early Diabetes in Primary Care

Completed

Conditions studied: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Prediabetic State

In brief

People who might have prediabetes or unrecognized diabetes will be screened for these problems at an outpatient visit. For screening, they will take a sugary drink containing 50 grams of glucose, and have a blood sample one hour later. The blood sample will be tested for glucose and A1c (a measure of blood glucose over the previous two months). They will also fill out questionnaires that ask about their health history and how they would feel about exercising and trying to lose weight if they are found to have prediabetes or diabetes. At a subsequent visit, they will have an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) - a blood sample, then a sugary drink containing 75 grams of glucose, and a repeat blood sample 2 hours later. We will evaluate the costs of finding out if people have prediabetes or diabetes. For people who are found to have these problems, we will also evaluate how well their doctors treat these problems.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00787839

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

1939

Starts

2009-06-01

Expected to finish

2012-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• veteran status,
• ambulatory outpatient at Atlanta VA Medical Center,
• visit to primary care clinic, AND
• meet criteria for screening (age >= 45 years or other risk factors [body mass index >=25 or hypertension or systolic blood pressure >=140 or HDL cholesterol <35 in men or <45 in women or fasting triglycerides >250 or first-degree relative with diabetes or minority race or minority ethnicity or history of diabetes during pregnancy or history of having a baby weighing >9 pounds or history of polycystic ovary syndrome])

You may not qualify if…

• known to have diabetes, OR
• taking steroids OR pregnant, OR
• not well enough to have worked during the previous week (actual employment not necessary)

Where it is running

• Atlanta VA Medical and Rehab Center, Decatur, GA — Decatur, Georgia, United States

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