BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA 1c ) has been in use for more than a decade, as a diagnostic test for type 2 diabetes. Validity of HbA 1c needs to be established in the ethnic population in which it is intended to be used. The objective of this study was to derive and validate a HbA 1c cut-off value for the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in the ethnic population of Rayalasee...

There is no argument that improving mean levels of glycemic control as judged by assays for glycated hemoglobin (HbA(1c)) reduces the risks of microvascular complications and cardiovascular disease events in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. However, observations in some trials have suggested that targeting HbA(1c) to suggested targets may not always result in improved outcomes for peop...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relative effectiveness of interventions with self-monitoring blood glucose and self-monitoring of urine glucose, versus interventions without self-monitoring, in terms of HbA(1c) reductions in type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS Thirteen published full reports on randomised controlled trials investigating the effects of self-monitoring glucose were identified by a syst...

OBJECTIVE A randomized, parallel-group, open-label, multicenter 16-week clinical trial compared efficacy and safety of repaglinide monotherapy and nateglinide monotherapy in type 2 diabetic patients previously treated with diet and exercise. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Enrolled patients (n = 150) had received treatment with diet and exercise in the previous 3 months with HbA(1c) >7 and < or =...

Erythroid colonies from cord blood in which both late (CFU-E) and early (BFU-E) erythroid precursors are present, were grown by the plasma clot technique. Hemoglobin (Hb) synthesis was studied and compared in fresh reticulocytes. 7-day-old colonies. and 14-day-old colonies. In the 8 cases studied, the proportion of HbA synthesis progresssively increased from circulating reticulocytes to 7-day-o...

BACKGROUND Patients on maintenance dialysis treatment experience an excess mortality, predominantly of sudden cardiac death. Poor glycemic control is associated with cardiovascular comorbidities in the general population. This study investigated the impact of glycemic control on cardiac and vascular outcomes in diabetic hemodialysis patients. METHODS AND RESULTS Glycohemoglobin A1c (HbA(1c)) ...

Current technologies for Home and Building Automation (HBA) require an explicit interaction with the user and allow a static set of operational scenarios, defined during system implementation. More flexible HBA solutions are needed to enable the so-called Ambient Intelligence, permitting an automatic coordination and control of appliances and subsystems located in a given environment. This pape...

A subtype of glycohaemoglobin, haemoglobin (Hb) A(1c), in specimens of whole blood was assayed on a new automated analyser that makes use of high-pressure liquid chromatography. The analyser provided precise and reproducible values. The mean of the HbA(1c) values was lower than that with an older instrument. The mean tended to increase with the age of the subjects, who were undergoing routine h...

Pose Recovery (PR) and Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) have been a main focus of interest from the beginnings of Computer Vision and Machine Learning. PR and HBA were originally addressed by the analysis of still images and image sequences. More recent strategies consisted of Motion Capture technology (MOCAP), based on the synchronization of multiple cameras in controlled environments; and the an...