Using hemoglobin A1C as a predicting model for time interval from pre-diabetes progressing to diabetes.
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2014
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 8
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104263
- PMID: 25093755
- Source
- Medline
- License
- Unknown
Abstract
This prediction model is very useful to help prioritize the diagnosis at an early stage for targeting individuals with risk of diabetes. Using patients' HbA1C before anti-diabetes drugs are used we predicted the time interval from pre-diabetes progression to diabetes is 2.49 years without any influence of age and gender. Additional studies are needed to support this model for a long term prediction.