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Breath test for diabetes

Non-invasive test can pick up the whiff of disease.

Physicists have developed a simple breath test that may be capable of detecting Type I diabetes.

Read the story here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on March 06, 2007
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I find it unfortunate that a story on the Nature website claims that insulin breaks down glucose. I understand that the news stories are not scientific papers, but this statement is still a bridge too far. Saying simply that "insulin signals the uptake and metabolism of glucose" is also simple but far more correct.

Posted by: steve | March 7, 2007 12:01 PM

The author don't know anything about diabetes. Next time it will be better, before writing a article about diabetes, the author read some articles about diabetes (Wikipedia?).

Posted by: Joerg Martini | March 8, 2007 07:17 AM

Nice try, but serum acetone is also elevated in starvation, as in Anorexia Nervosa. The breath acetone would not pick up elevated glucoses due to dietary indiscretions. It could aid in detecting untreated type 1 diabetes, but this is a problem that is not in need of a solution. I suspect that it would miss most early type 2 diabetes, and most diabetes is type 2.

Posted by: Daniel Postellon MD | March 12, 2007 04:47 PM

in my opinion the test desribed in this article is not that sure a test compared to blood sample test

Posted by: Dr.madhu pola | October 10, 2007 11:09 AM

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