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JOURNAL OF THE ASEAN FEDERATION OF ENDOCRINE SOCIETIES
Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 127-132Publisher
ASEAN FEDERATION ENDOCRINE SOC
DOI: 10.15605/jafes.036.02.02
Keywords
type 2 diabetes mellitus; fasting plasma glucose; HbA1c; The Malaysian Cohort; diagnosis; population differences
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- Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia [PDE48]
- Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
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The study found that using HbA1c as a diagnostic tool resulted in a higher prevalence of pre-diabetes and diabetes, potentially making it more useful for early detection. However, due to the lower sensitivity and higher false positive rate of HbA1c for diabetes, multiple diagnostic criteria should be used for accurate diagnosis.
Objective. In this present study, we aim to evaluate the accuracy of the HbA1c relative to fasting plasma glucose (FPG) in the diagnosis of diabetes and pre-diabetes among The Malaysian Cohort (TMC) participants. Methodology. FPG and HbA1c were taken from 40,667 eligible TMC participants that have no previous history of diabetes, aged between 35-70 years and were recruited from 2006 - 2012. Participants were classified as normal, diabetes and pre-diabetes based on the 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. Statistical analyses were performed using ANOVA and Chi-square test, while Pearson correlation and Cohen's kappa were used to examine the concordance rate between FPG and HbA1c. Results. The study samples consisted of 16,224 men and 24,443 women. The prevalence of diabetes among the participants was 5.7% and 7.5% according to the FPG and HbA1c level, respectively. Based on FPG, 10.6% of the participants had pre-diabetes but this increased to 14.2% based on HbA1c (r=0.86; P<0.001). HbA1c had a sensitivity of 58.20 (95% CI: 56.43, 59.96) and a specificity of 98.59 (95% CI: 98.46, 98.70). Conclusion. A higher prevalence of pre-diabetes and diabetes was observed when using HbA1c as a diagnosis tool, suggesting that it could possibly be more useful for early detection. However, given that HbA1c may also have lower sensitivity and higher false positive rate, several diagnostic criteria should be used to diagnose diabetes accurately.
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