Are multiple adverse pregnancy outcomes before symptom onset associated with a worse disease outcome in women with recent-onset inflammatory polyarthritis?
Women with two or more APOs before IP onset had a worse disease outcome than women with no APOs.
In conclusion, pancreatic diabetes probably develops after a reduction in beta cell area of ~65%. Post-challenge glucose excursions are much more closely related to pancreatic beta cell area than to fasting glycaemia, thereby underlining the usefulness of the OGTT in patients with pancreatic disorders.