title: Epidemiological association between fasting plasma glucose and shortened APTT.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the relationship between fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and shortened activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), an independent risk factor for thrombosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed outpatients' results of coagulation tests and FPG.
  
  
  RESULTS
  When compared with euglycemic subjects, those with impaired fasting glucose and diabetes displayed significantly shortened APTTs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This previously unreported association deserves scrutiny, because APTT is relatively inexpensive and it might identify diabetic patients at major risk of thrombosis.
authors.affiliation: Sezione di Chimica Clinica, Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologico-Biomediche, Università degli Studi di Verona, Ospedale Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Piazzale Scuro, 10, 37134-Verona, Italy. ulippi@tin.it
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lippi
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Franchini
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Targher
authors.forename: Martina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Montagnana
authors.forename: Gian Luca
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Salvagno
authors.forename: Gian Cesare
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Guidi
authors.forename: Emmanuel J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Favaloro
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D005215:Fasting; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010314:Partial Thromboplastin Time
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose