Thresholds of various glycemic measures for diagnosing diabetes based on prevalence of retinopathy in community-dwelling Japanese subjects: the Hisayama Study

Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the FPG and HbA1c thresholds for diagnosing diabetes in the Japanese population are lower than the current diagnostic criterion, while the 2-hour PG threshold is comparable with the diagnostic criterion. 2-hour PG had the highest discriminative ability, whereas FPG, HbA1c, GA, and 1,5-AG were similar in their ability.

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Source: Cardiovascular Diabetology - February 17, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Naoko MukaiMiho YasudaToshiharu NinomiyaJun HataYoichiro HirakawaFumie IkedaMasayo FukuharaTaeko HottaMasafumi KogaUdai NakamuraDongchon KangTakanari KitazonoYutaka Kiyohara Source Type: research