Postprandial blood glucose and its relation to diabetic gastroparesis — a comparison of two methods
- Resource Type
- Authors
- K. D. Hepp; Nina Hackelsberger; K. Piwernetz; R. Renner; W. Gerhards
- Source
- Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 20:197-200
- Subject
- Adult
Blood Glucose
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Scintigraphy
Eating
Endocrinology
Internal medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Internal Medicine
medicine
Humans
Radionuclide Imaging
Aged
Meal
medicine.diagnostic_test
Gastric emptying
business.industry
Stomach
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Carbohydrate
medicine.disease
Postprandial
Gastric Emptying
Technetium Tc 99m Pentetate
Female
business
Complication
Polyneuropathy
- Language
- ISSN
- 0168-8227
Delayed gastric emptying is known as an important organic cause for brittle diabetes. We proposed the interval from the start of a meal to the rise in blood glucose, defined as blood glucose latency (T BG) as an index for gastric emptying and a non-invasive test for diabetic gastropathy. In order to validate this test we compared it in 22 type 1 diabetic patients with an established scintigraphic method for the measurement of gastric half-emptying time (T12) and found the following correlation: T BG = 4.4 + 0.162 × T12; r 0.79, P < 0.001. We therefore suggest measuring the blood glucose latency as a simple non-invasive screening method.