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OGTT reproducibility in adults with impaired fasting glucose is nearly 65% with adoption of Italian SIBioC-SIPMeL recommendations

  • Roberto Testa , Claudia Lo Cascio , Paolo Fabbietti , Anna Rita Bonfigli and on behalf of the Italian Joint SIBioC-SIPMeL Study Group on Diabetes Mellitus

Corresponding author: Roberto Testa, MD, Clinical Laboratory and Molecular Diagnostics, IRCCS INRCA National Institute, Via Della Montagnola 81, 60127Ancona, Italy, E-mail:

Funding source: Sclavo Diagnostics International s.r.l.

  1. Research funding: This study was supported by Sclavo Diagnostics International s.r.l, which also provided glucose for OGTT.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.

  5. Ethical approval: Research involving human subjects complied with all relevant national regulations, institutional policies and is in accordance with the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration (as revised in 2013), and has been approved by the authors’ Institutional Review Board (CdB SC/09/244).

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Received: 2020-10-13
Accepted: 2021-02-16
Published Online: 2021-03-03
Published in Print: 2021-07-27

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