Glycated Hemoglobin and the Risk of Kidney Disease and Retinopathy In Adults with and Without Diabetes Running title: HbA1c and microvascular outcomes

1 Department of Epidemiology and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 2 Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 3 Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 4 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 5 Merck & Company, Inc. Whitehouse Station, NJ (formerly, Department of Epidemiology and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD) 6 University of Wisconsin, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Madison, WI 7 Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Australia 8 Singapore Eye Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore