High Blood Glucose Concentration Is a Risk Factor for Mortality in Middle-Aged Nondiabetic Men: 20-year follow-up in the Whitehall Study, the Paris Prospective Study, and the Helsinki Policemen Study

Beverley Balkau; Martin Shipley; R John Jarrett; Kalevi Pyörälä; Marja Pyörälä; Anne Forhan; Eveline Eschwège

doi:10.2337/diacare.21.3.360

Original Articles

High Blood Glucose Concentration Is a Risk Factor for Mortality in Middle-Aged Nondiabetic Men: 20-year follow-up in the Whitehall Study, the Paris Prospective Study, and the Helsinki Policemen Study

Beverley Balkau, PHD,
Martin Shipley, MSC,
R John Jarrett, MD,
Kalevi Pyörälä, MD,
Marja Pyörälä, MD,
Anne Forhan, BSC and
Eveline Eschwège, MD

INSERM U21 and the Faculty of Medicine Paris-Sud Villejuif, France
Department of Medicine, University of Kuopio Kuopio, Finland
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Medical School London, U.K.
Department of Public Health Medicine, United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals London, U.K.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Beverley Balkau, PhD, INSERM U21, 16 avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, F-94807 Villejuif Cedex, France. E-mail: balkau{at}vjf.inserm.fr

Diabetes Care 1998 Mar; 21(3): 360-367. https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.21.3.360

Article Information

vol. 21 no. 3 360-367

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.21.3.360

PubMed

9540016

Published By

American Diabetes Association

Print ISSN

0149-5992

Online ISSN

1935-5548

History

Received August 18, 1997
Accepted October 22, 1997
Published in print March 1, 1998.

Author Information

Beverley Balkau, PHD,
Martin Shipley, MSC,
R John Jarrett, MD,
Kalevi Pyörälä, MD,
Marja Pyörälä, MD,
Anne Forhan, BSC and
Eveline Eschwège, MD

INSERM U21 and the Faculty of Medicine Paris-Sud Villejuif, France
Department of Medicine, University of Kuopio Kuopio, Finland
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Medical School London, U.K.
Department of Public Health Medicine, United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals London, U.K.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Beverley Balkau, PhD, INSERM U21, 16 avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier, F-94807 Villejuif Cedex, France. E-mail: balkau{at}vjf.inserm.fr

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