Details of Element: Father
Component of Oral Glucose Test

Unique Name: fathe15
Contained in the Common BLSA Data Set ? No

Data Points (as of 09/06/98) Males Females Total
Number of Data Points 339 238 577
Number of Distinct Participants 105 88 193
Year First Collected 1971 1978 -
Year Last Collected 1998 1998 -

Type of Variable: Absolute Measure
Encoding: Continuous
Units of Measure: #, Hx of Diabetes
Precision: #.
Anticipated Range: 0. thru 1.
Masterfile Index: 130-01-01
Related Data Elements: none
Specific to this Data Element:
    Descriptive history:
    The 130 file type contains data from the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). The coding of Card 1 deals with factors known to influence the results of the OGTT. These factors include the BLSA participant's family history of diabetes mellitus, medications and diseases known to affect the test, and technical factors that influence the results of the test.

    Data collection methodology:
    Blood chemistry.

    Related protocols:
    Other blood chemistries.

    Investigators:
    Dr. Reubin Andres (primary investigator)
    GRC Box-24
    andresr@grc.nia.nih.gov
    (410)-558-8194

    Frequency of data collection:
    Every other visit.

    Inclusion/exclusion rules:
    No subjects previously diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus.

    Publications using these data:
  • Andres, R. Aging, diabetes, and obesity: standards of normality. Mt Sinai J Med. 48(6): 489-95,1981.
  • Andres, R. Problems in the study of human aging. In: Schimke R, ed. Biological Mechanisms in Aging. Washington, D.C.: US Department of Health and Human Services, NIH Publication No. 81-2194, US Government Printing Office; 1981:696-700.
  • Goldberg, A., Andres, R., Bierman, E. Diabetes mellitus in the elderly. In: Andres R, Hazzard W, Bierman E, eds. Principles of Geriatric Medicine. New York: McGraw-Hill; 1985:750-763.
  • Potter, J.F., Levin, P., Anderson, R.A., Freiberg, J.M., Andres, R., Elahi, D. Glucose metabolism in glucose-intolerant older people during chromium supplementation. Metabolism. 34(3): 199-204,1985.
  • Andres, R. Diabetes mellitus in the elderly. In: Hazzard W, Andres R, Bierman E, Blass J, eds. Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 1990:739-758.
  • Shimokata, H., Muller, D.C., Fleg, J.L., Sorkin, J., Ziemba, A.W., Andres, R. Age as independent determinant of glucose tolerance. Diabetes. 40(1): 44-51,1991.
  • Busby, M.J., Bellantoni, M.F., Tobin, J.D., Muller, D.C., Kafonek, S.D., Blackman, M.R., Andres, R. Glucose tolerance in women: the effects of age, body composition, and sex hormones. J Am Geriatr Soc. 40(5): 497-502,1992.
  • Andres, R. Diabetes and aging. In: Brocklehurst J, Tallis R, Fillit H, eds. Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. 4th ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone; 1992:724-728.
  • Elahi, D., Muller, D.C., McAloon-Dyke, M., Tobin, J.D., Andres, R. The effect of age on insulin response and glucose utilization during four hyperglycemic plateaus. Exp Gerontol. 28(4-5): 393-409,1993.
  • Muller, D.C., Elahi, D., Pratley, R.E., Tobin, J.D., Andres, R. An epidemiological test of the hyperinsulinemia-hypertension hypothesis. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 76(3): 544-8,1993.
  • Muller, D., Elahi, D., Tobin, J., Andres, R. Insulin response during the oral glucose tolerance test: the role of age, sex, body fat and the pattern of fat distribution. Aging Clin. Exp. Res. 8: 13-21,1996.
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