A patient with thalassemia major is demembers of the same family who are also scribed in which two types of thalassemia HbC carriers. The genetic implications of genes are present. one that reduces 3-chain the interaction of these two thalassemia synthesis and the other that suppresses it genes are discussed in view of recent completely. The identification of these two theories on the nature of...

To determine the effectiveness of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) ≥ 6.5% in diagnosing diabetes compared to fasting plasma glucose (FPG) ≥ 126 mg/dL and 2-hour plasma glucose (2hPG) ≥ 200 mg/dL in a previously undiagnosed diabetic cohort, we included 5,764 adult subjects without established diabetes for whom HbA1c, FPG, 2hPG, and BMI measurements were collected. Compared to the FPG criterion, the sensit...

Author details Department of Biostatistics, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK. Alder Hey Children’s NHS FT, East Prescott Road, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK. Professor in Paediatric Endocrinology & Honorary Consultant, Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK. Department of Biochemistry, Alder Hey Children’s NHS FT, East...

in 1979, a community health survey for the purpose of establishing population babe. services were conducted in the villages of region of isfahan with a population of about 10,000. the target group involved males and females with in the age group of more than one year old. the population under study, 617 males and 565 females who were selected by household random sampling, where examined for the...

W e thank Drs. Kilpatrick and Bloomgarden (1) for their interest in our study. While we agree that the higher mean HbA1c in blacks compared with whites is well established, the collective evidence suggests that risk associations are similar. The goal of our recent study (2) was to compare the prognostic value of HbA1c to fasting glucose for risk of major complications in black and white adults....

The link between glucose and HbA1c at steady state has previously been described using steady-state or longitudinal relationships. We evaluated five published methods for prediction of HbA1c after 26/28 weeks using data from four clinical trials. Methods (1) and (2): steady-state regression of HbA1c on fasting plasma glucose and mean plasma glucose, respectively, (3) an indirect response model ...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether literacy mediates the relationship between education and glycemic control among diabetes patients. METHODS We measured educational attainment, literacy using the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (s-TOFHLA), and glycemic control (HbA1c) in 395 diabetes patients at a U.S. public hospital. We performed path analysis to compare two compe...