Comment on: Zhang et al. A1C Level and Future Risk of Diabetes: A Systematic Review. Diabetes Care 2010;33:1665–1673 | Zendy

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Comment on: Zhang et al. A1C Level and Future Risk of Diabetes: A Systematic Review. Diabetes Care 2010;33:1665–1673

Author(s) -

Chris Robinson,

M. Abdel-Motagally

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc10-1901

Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , zhàng , gerontology , endocrinology , china , political science , law

Robinson and Abdel-Motagally (1) compared their findings from FINDRISC, an individual study, to our summary estimates from a systematic review (2) and concluded that our A1C review overestimated future diabetes incidence. Although their findings add to our understanding of the A1C level–incident diabetes relationship, their conclusion was based on comparing a single study with a summary estimate from multiple studies. Our systematic review summarized a heterogeneous set of studies in which the annualized diabetes incidence ranged from 0.1% at A1C …

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