Identifying a Potential Screening Tool for Prediabetes: The Association of Hemoglobin A1c and a Test of Physical Fitness.

Conclusions: Exemptions taken on the AFPT, increased abdominal circumference, and elevated body mass index are strongly associated with prediabetes in this military population. HbA1c could be a screening tool for these at-risk personnel to identify diabetes in its early stages. PMID: 30169844 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research