Comment on Norhammar et al. Undetected Dysglycemia Is an Important Risk Factor for Two Common Diseases, Myocardial Infarction and Periodontitis: A Report From the PAROKRANK Study. Diabetes Care 2019;42:1504–1511

Norhammar et al. (1) recently conducted a case-control study to determine the relationship among previously undetected dysglycemia (prediabetes and diabetes), myocardial infarction (MI), and periodontitis. In this study, after excluding individuals with established diabetes, all subjects were examined with an oral glucose tolerance test and were categorized as having a glucose status of normal glucose tolerance (NGT), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), or diabetes by their 2-h postload glucose level. As detailed …