The following study by diabetes-symposium.org, presented as an online presentation (with audio), presents a number of interesting results by using continuous blood glucose monitors on individuals without diabetes. There is also some high-level comparison of individuals with Type 2 diabetes. Most facinating was the degree of uniformity in the sleeping blood glucose averages. It almost makes you feel like if you fed a known quantity of carbs to an individual and used a continous glucose monitor it would be a possible way to test for pre-diabetes. It also raised the question of doing this for different diet types--I know for those that low carb the post prandial blood sugar spike is almost if not entirely non-existent. The following link shows the entire presentation as an index. This is a great study and hopefully there is more to come. (First discovered via this forum thread which requires registration)
Another useful resource is this Glucose Tolerance Test Reference Information .
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