OBJECTIVE To examine the sensitivity and specificity of A1C as a diagnostic test for type 2 diabetes in older adults. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Cross-sectional study of community-dwelling adults without known diabetes who had an oral glucose tolerance test and A1C measured on the same day. RESULTS Mean age of the 2,107 participants was 69.4 +/- 11.1 years; 43% were men. Based on the Ameri...

ObjectivesRecent data have demonstrated benefits of pharmacist-led protocols for chronic disease state management in the primary care setting. Health coaching has also been shown to improve patient outcomes and reduce health costs. A program was initiated August 2017 at a rural, free clinic provide team-based, patient-centered through use pharmacist-provider collaborative practice patients with...

abstract background and objective: diabetes mellitus is one of complications that thalassemia major patients face with. hence, blood glucose monitoring is of vital importance to these patients. because of high level of fetal hemoglobin in these patients, the measurement of hemoglobin a1c is not reliable and should be displaced by fructosamine test. material and methods: the current descriptive ...

INTRODUCTION Clinical trials have shown that liraglutide effectively lowers glycated hemoglobin A1c (A1C) levels in adult patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, no studies have evaluated the effectiveness of liraglutide by body mass index (BMI) in the United States (US) in clinical practice. This study examined liraglutide's clinical effectiveness to lower A1C and body weight after 6 mon...

BACKGROUND Glycated hemoglobin A1c (A1C) is an important marker in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes. Dried blood measurement of A1C is useful in large scale epidemiological evaluation of A1C, especially to assess the impact of intervention programs. The possibility of using dried blood for measurement of A1C by the immunoturbidimetric method was explored in the present study. METHOD Bl...

BACKGROUND The reference intervals for hemoglobin A1c (Hb A1c) in pregnant women without diabetes are not well defined, and few examples of reference intervals established by networks of different laboratories are available. METHODS Five Italian Diabetic Care Units were involved in the study. Data were collected from 445 pregnant women without diabetes, selected on the basis of glucose challe...

OBJECTIVE We sought to examine racial and ethnic differences in A1C in individuals with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We studied 3,819 individuals aged > or = 25 years with IGT who were found to be eligible to participant in the Diabetes Prevention Program. A1C was compared among five racial and ethnic groups before and after adjustment for factors that differe...

OBJECTIVE To compare A1C and fasting glucose for the diagnosis of diabetes among U.S. adults. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This study included 6,890 adults (> or =20 years of age) from the 1999-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey without a self-reported history of diabetes who had fasted > or =9 h. A1C > or =6.5% and fasting glucose > or =126 mg/dl were used, separately, to d...

OBJECTIVE Effective type 2 diabetes management requires prompt intervention if glycemic control is not achieved by nonpharmacological means. This study investigates whether inhaled insulin (INH; Exubera) can achieve target glycemic control in patients failing on diet and exercise. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Patients with suboptimal control on diet and exercise (HbA(1c) [A1C] 8-11%) were rand...

OBJECTIVE New clinical practice recommendations include A1C as an alternative to fasting glucose as a diagnostic test for identifying pre-diabetes. The impact of these new recommendations on the diagnosis of pre-diabetes is unknown. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2006 (n = 7,029) were analyzed to determine the percentage and num...