Unhealthy Phenotype as Indicated by Salivary Biomarkers: Glucose, Insulin, VEGF-A, and IL-12p70 in Obese Kuwaiti Adolescents

Figure 1

Semilogarithmic distribution of salivary glucose concentration values. Approximate values of the concentration of plasma glucose were computed from the equation [plasma = 13.5 saliva + 84.8] [10]. The salivary glucose concentration of 1.13 mg/dL was computed from the same equation and is approximately equivalent to a hyperglycemic plasma value of 100 mg/dL.