title: Glycated hemoglobin, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular risk in a cross-sectional study among She Chinese population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) could be used to diagnose Type 2 diabetes mellitus in She Chinese People and to assess the role of HbA1c in the development of cardiovascular disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  An ethnically representative sample of 687 (277 males and 410 females) adults, 20 yr of age or older participated in the study, and 75-g oral glucose tolerance test was administrated. Based on receiver operating characteristic curves, various cut-off values of HbA1c were used to stratify glucose tolerance. Several indexes were used to assess the cardiovascular risk, including estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), Tpeak-end, Tp-e dispersion, aVL R wave, and QTc.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using World Health Organization as gold standard, the HbA1c value of 6.9% was optimal to diagnose diabetes mellitus with a sensitivity of 35.3% and specificity of 94.0%. And for impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, and impaired glucose regulation, the cut-off points were all 6.1%. Assessed by logistic regression model, HbA1c was an independent risk factor for the decline in eGFR; R wave in lead aVL increased significantly (p<0.05) with the increase of HbA1c values. Other indexes reflecting the cardiovascular risks were not meaningful in our study.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  HbA1c may be not a preferred method to diagnose Type2 diabetes in She Chinese people. However, more attention should be paid to subjects with HbA1c>6.1%, and their blood glucose should be tightly measured in clinical practice. In addition, we suggest that HbA1c is a predictor of cardiovascular disease.
authors: Department of Endocrinology, Ningde Municipal Hospital, Ningde, China.
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authors: Lin
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authors: Xu
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authors: Chen
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authors: Huang
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authors: Yao
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