Haemoglobin A1c is superior to fasting glucose in predicting the incidence of diabetes over 8 years among Chinese

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Law, Lawrence S C ^a   Tso, Annette W K ^a,b   Tam, Sidney ^a,c   Wat, Nelson M S ^a   Cheung, Bernard M Y ^a   Lam, Karen S L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cox regression; Diabetes incidence; Fasting glucose; Haemoglobin A1c; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FASTING; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79952042259     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Selvin E., Crainiceanu C.M., Brancati F.L., Coresh J. Short-term variability in measures of glycemia and implications for the classification of diabetes. Arch Intern Med 2007, 167:1545-1551.
2. American Diabetes Association Diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Care 2010, 33:S62-S69.
3. Janus E.D., Wat N.M.S., Lam K.S., Cockram C., Siu S., Liu L., et al. Hong Kong Cardiovascular Risk Factor Steering Committee. The prevalence of diabetes, association with cardiovascular risk factors and implications of diagnostic criteria (ADA 1997 and WHO 1998) in a 1996 community-based population study in Hong Kong Chinese. Diabetic Med 2000, 17:741-745.
4. Wat N.M.S., Lam T.H., Janus E.D., Lam K.S.L. Central obesity predicts the worsening of glycemia in southern Chinese. Int J Obesity 2001, 25:1789-1793.
5. Perkins N.J., Schisterman E.F. The inconsistency of " optimal" cutpoints obtained using two criteria based on receiver operating characteristic curve. Am J Epidemiol 2006, 163(7):670-675.
6. Cowie C.C., Rust K.F., Byrd-Holt D.D., Gregg E.W., Ford E.S., Geiss L.S., et al. Prevalence of diabetes and high risk for diabetes using hemoglobin A1c criteria in the U.S. population in 1988-2006. Diabetes Care 2010, 33:562-568.
7. Zhou X., Pang Z., Gao W., Wang S., Zhang L., Ning F., et al. Performance of an A1c and fasting capillary blood glucose test for screening newly diagnosed diabetes and pre-diabetes defined by an oral glucose tolerance test in Qingdao, China. Diabetes Care 2010, 33:545-550.
8. Bao Y, Ma X, Li H, Zhou M, Hu C, Wu H, et al. Glycated haemoglobin A1c for diagnosing diabetes in Chinese population: cross sectional epidemiological survey. Br Med J 2010, doi:10.1136/bmj.c2249.
9. Droumaguet C., Balkau B., Simon D., Caces E., Tichet J., Charles M.A., et al. Use of HbA1c in predicting progression to diabetes in French men and women. Diabetes Care 2006, 29:1619-1625.
10. Inoue K., Matsumoto M., Kobayashi Y. The combination of fasting plasma glucose and glycosylated haemoglobin predicts type 2 diabetes in Japanese workers. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2007, 77:451-458.
11. Sato K.K., Tayashi T., Harita N., Yoneda T., Nakamura Y., Endo G., et al. Combined measurement of fasting plasma glucose and A1c is effective for the prediction of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care 2009, 32:644-646.
12. Nakagami T., Tajima N., Oizumi T., Karasawa S., Wada K., Kameda W., et al. Hemoglobin A1c in predicting progression to diabetes. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2010, 87:126-131.
13. Selvin E., Steffes M.W., Zhu H., Matsushita K., Wagenknecht L., Pankow J., et al. Glycated hemoglobin, diabetes, and cardiovascular risk in nondiabetic adults. New Engl J Med 2010, 362:800-811.
14. Brewer N., Wright C.S., Travier N., Cunningham C.W., Hornell J., Pearce N., et al. A New Zealand linkage study examining the associations between A1c concentration and mortality. Diabetes Care 2008, 31:1144-2008.
15. Ong K.L., Tso A.W., Lam K.S., Cherny S.S., Sham P.C., Cheung B.M. Using glycosylated hemoglobin to define the metabolic syndrome in United States adults. Diabetes Care 2010, 33:1856-1858.
16. Ko G.T.C., Chan J.C.N., Yeung V.T.E., Chow C.C., Tsang L.W.W., Li J.K.Y., et al. Combined use of a fasting plasma glucose concentration and HbA1c or fructosamine predicts the likehood of having diabetes in high-risk subjects. Diabetes Care 1998, 21:1221-1225.