No Racial Differences in the Association of Glycated Hemoglobin With Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Outcomes
Minority Diabetes Reports Wednesday, June 5th, 2013Diabetes Care May 30, 2013
OBJECTIVE There is debate regarding the clinical significance of well-established racial differences in HbA1c. We compared the associations of diabetes diagnostic categories for HbA1c and fasting glucose with clinical outcomes in black and white persons in the community.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort analysis of participants without diabetes or cardiovascular disease from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. We examined the associations of clinical categories of HbA1c (<5.7%, 5.7–6.4%, ≥6.5%) and fasting glucose (<100, 100–125, ≥126 mg/dL) with outcomes separately among 2,484 black and 8,593 white participants and tested for race interactions. Read more