The first use of a Type 2 diabetes test, he said, would probably be in people with impaired glucose tolerance.
This resembles impaired glucose tolerance, which can result in type 2 diabetes.
It is associated with diabetes mellitus and abnormal glucose tolerance.
The glucose tolerance diagnostic test may take up to 4 hours.
Even among people who do not have diabetes, poor glucose tolerance appears to be linked to weaker memory, according to a study released yesterday.
This group has carried out a large multicentre study on glucose tolerance in normal pregnancy.
Pregnancy is clearly having an effect on glucose tolerance, a fact Jarrett dismisses.
Of the two, impaired glucose tolerance better predicts cardiovascular disease and mortality.
Researchers looked at more than 3,200 people who already had impaired glucose tolerance, a pre-diabetic state.
Chromium and insulin in young subjects with normal glucose tolerance.