A Comparison of European and Chinese Blood Sugar Responses

Small Changes

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Diabetes

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02577874

Chinese European study 2015

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to compare the responses to an oral glucose challenge between people of European and Chinese heritage (essential participants in the European arm must have tow European parents and likewise for the Chinese participants).

Full description

100 participants (50 European and 50 Chinese) will attend a lab after an overnight fast and have a capillary finger-prick blood test to assess fasted blood glucose levels and then consume a 50 gram glucose solution. Blood test will be repeated at 15, 30, 45, 60, 90 and 120 minutes post consumption of the glucose solution. This test will be repeated on a spate occasion at least a week later than the first test. Participants will only take part in the experiment after singing informed consent and agreeing to take part in the study and after a medical screening questionnaire assessing that they are non-diabetic or haemophiliac or have blood born infections.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 59 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• European ethnicity
• Chinese ethnicity
• age 19-59 years

Exclusion criteria

• diabetics
• serious blood born infection
• haemophilia

Trial design

100 participants in 2 patient groups

Chinese Subjects

Description:

7 blood glucose tests taken over a two hour period

European Subjects

Description:

7 blood glucose tests taken over a two hour period