Association between white blood cell count and components of metabolic syndrome.

Background: Components of metabolic syndrome (MetS) were found to be associated with several inflammatory factors including white blood cell count (WBCC), which is an easily available test in clinical practice. In the present study, the relationships between WBCC and MetS components were investigated in children.

Methods: A total of 288 Taiwanese children, under 10 years old, with normal WBCC, were enrolled in the study.

Impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose share similar underlying pathophysiologies.

Both impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glucose (IFG) are pre-diabetic states. IGT was defined as having normal fasting plasma glucose (< 6.1 mmol/l) and abnormal 2-hr post-challenge plasma glucose.

The insulin sensitivity, glucose sensitivity, and acute insulin response to glucose load in adolescent type 2 diabetes in Taiwanese.

Background: Insulin sensitivity (SI), glucose sensitivity (SG), acute insulin response to glucose load (AIR), and obesity in adolescent type 2 diabetes patients (young diabetes, YDM) in Taiwan were studied.

Methods: Forty patients diagnosed at <22 years of age were enrolled and divided into non-obese (NOYDM, BMI < 27 kg/m(2)) and obese groups (OBYDM BMI > 27 kg/m(2)). Adult-onset type 2 diabetes patients (ADM) >40 years old (n = 41) and nondiabetic young adults (N) (n = 23) served as controls.

The insulin sensitivity, glucose effectiveness and acute insulin response to glucose load of non-obese adolescent type 2 diabetes.

To determine the clinical characteristics in adolescent type 2 diabetes (young diabetes, YDM) in Taiwan, we enrolled 11 males who were diagnosed with YDM before 19 years of age into our study. Another 11 patients with adult type 2 diabetes (mature age diabetes, MADM) who were diagnosed after the age of 40 were enrolled as compare group. Subjects from both groups were being treated with oral hypoglycemic agents only at the time of enrollment, and none of the subjects had a history of diabetic ketoacidosis.