When HbA1c and Blood Glucose Do Not Match: How Much Is Determined by Race, by Genetics, by Differences in Mean Red Blood Cell Age?

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 707-710

  Cohen, Robert M ^a,b   Franco, Robert S ^a   Smith, Eric P ^a   Higgins, John M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; FRUCTOSAMINE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT GAIN; CAREGIVER; CAUCASIAN; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE LIFESPAN; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; ESTIMATED GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; EUROPEAN; EX VIVO STUDY; FRUCTOSAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; GLYCOSYLATION; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOGLOBIN SYNTHESIS; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERSECTORAL COLLABORATION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MICROANGIOPATHY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOTE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETICULOCYTE; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; STEADY STATE; VETERAN; ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL VARIATION; BLOOD; ERYTHROCYTE; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL VARIATION, POPULATION; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERYTHROCYTES; GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN A; HUMANS;

EID: 85060156325     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2018-02409     Document Type: Note

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