Test may someday help predict diabetes risk
All women, regardless of risk, should focus on preventing diabetes.
"LPIR correctly indicated higher risk in almost an additional 6% of those women who developed type 2 diabetes within the study period," says fellow study author, Dr. Paulo Harada, cardiologist and research collaborator for the Center for Lipid Metabolomics at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital. At the same time, it identified almost 8% more women who were at lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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