2426-PUB: Circulating WBC, RBC, and Hemoglobin Level in Relation to Metabolic Syndrome and Incident Prediabetes in a Biracial Cohort of Normoglycemic Subjects with Parental Type 2 Diabetes

• Published in: Diabetes (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 68; no. Supplement_1
• Main Authors: ABUTINEH, IMAN, UMEKWE, NKIRU A., ARIGANJOYE, FOLABI, DAGOGO-JACK, SAMUEL
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York American Diabetes Association 01.06.2019
• Subjects: Blood; Blood pressure; Cholesterol; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetes mellitus (non-insulin dependent); Health risk assessment; Hematocrit; Hemoglobin; High density lipoprotein; Inflammation; Leukocytes (eosinophilic); Lipids; Metabolic syndrome; Monocytes; Multiracial people

Objective: We assessed the relationships among blood cell counts, metabolic syndrome (MetS), and prediabetes risk in a biracial cohort of African Americans (AA) and European Americans (EA) with parental type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods: We studied 603 normoglycemic subjects (264 EA, 339 AA),...