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Journal of Environmental and Public Health
Volume 2013, Article ID 256151, 4 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/256151
Research Article

Impact of Blood Sample Collection and Processing Methods on Glucose Levels in Community Outreach Studies

Michael Turchiano,1 Cuong Nguyen,1 Arthur Fierman,2 Mark Lifshitz,3 and Antonio Convit1,3,4,5

1Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
2Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
3Department of Pathology and Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
4Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA
5Brain, Obesity, and Diabetes Laboratory (BODyLab), New York University School of Medicine, 145 East 32nd Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA

Received 11 October 2012; Accepted 20 December 2012

Academic Editor: Linda M. Gerber

Copyright © 2013 Michael Turchiano et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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