HbA1cmeasurement for the diagnosis of diabetes: is it enough?

Autor: J. Comerlato, Paula Breitenbach Renz, Gabriela Cavagnolli, J. L. Gross, Joiza Lins Camargo, Carolina Baldisserotto Comerlato
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Diabetic Medicine. 28:31-35
ISSN: 0742-3071
Popis: Diabet. Med. 28, 31–35 (2011) Abstract Aim To analyse the performance of HbA1c in diagnosing Type 2 diabetes based on fasting plasma glucose and/or 2-h plasma glucose measurements after a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test. Methods This is a study of diagnostic test accuracy in individuals referred to the Clinical Pathology Department for oral glucose tolerance testing. After fasting overnight, HbA1c, fasting plasma glucose and 2-h plasma glucose were measured. The receiver operating characteristic curve was used to evaluate the diagnostic performance of HbA1c. Results Four hundred and ninety-eight subjects (195 male, mean age 56 years) were enrolled and 115 (23.1%) were diagnosed with diabetes according to glucose-based methods and only 56 (11.2%) individuals were identified by HbA1c≥ 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) (sensitivity 20.9%, specificity 95.3%). There is poor agreement between the newly recommended criterion and the current glucose-based diagnostic criteria (κ = 0.217; P
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