Hasty eating as a cause of unstable blood glucose in patients with maturity-onset diabetes.
In order to see whether diabetes control is affected by eating behavior, 22 outpatients with mild form of maturity-onset diabetes were examined for their eating behavior after an approximately 17 hr fast by measuring eating-up time of a test diet. When the standard deviation of 5 fasting blood glucose values during the preceeding 5 months was adpoted as an indicator of the glucose unstability, it was found to be greater in the patients with shorter eating-up time of the test diet. The hasty eaters also showed a fluctuation in body weight. Thus, an adequate instruction on eating habit seems to be needed in the management of diabetic patients.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000097:blood* / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000523:psychology; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
D001786:Blood Glucose