The Effect of the Intervening Variables Age, Sex and Overweight on the Intravenous Glucose Tolerance Test,

The values for kG of the intravenous glucose tolerance test on 192 metabolically healthy as well as diabetic test persons were subjected to a three-dimensional variance analysis in order to examine the dependence of the glucose tolerance on age, sex and overweight. A dependence on overweight and sex could not be detected, whereas a significant fall of the values for ko with age can be observed at the 1 % niveau. This dependence, however, is probably not entirely accounted for by age per se, but rather by concomitant variables Connected with age. In view of the multidimensionality of the glucose tolerance variable, the authors consider it too early at present to establish appropriate age-dependent "normal ranges". Die ko-Werte des intravenösen Glucose-Toleranztest von 192 stoffwechselgesunden und diabetischen Probanden wurden zur Prüfung der Abhängigkeit der Glucosetoleranz von Alter, Geschlecht und Übergewicht einer dreidimensionalen Varianzanalyse unterzogen. Während die Geschlechtsverteilung an der Grenze zur Signifikanz liegt, konnte eine Abhängigkeit vom Übergewicht nicht festgestell