Secondly, we evaluated whether diabetes was
present in those women who would not be advised to undergo an
OGTT. Based on this prior fasting glucose level, 8 of the 187 women
(4%) would at that time have been selected to undergo an OGTT. Six
of these eight women presented with fasting glucose levels over
6.1 mmol/l at the OGTT assessment as well, two of whom were classified
as diabetes at the repeat assessment. The remaining two women
presented with fasting glucose levels just below 5.6 mmol/l at the time
of OGTT assessment in this study. One woman with normal fasting
glucose concentration of 5.5 mmol/l at initial assessment presented
with a second fasting glucose concentration of 7.0 mmol/l. No other
case of diabetes was identified among those women who screened
,6.1 mmol/l on prior glucose assessment.