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Racial Differences in the Relationship of Glucose Concentrations and Hemoglobin A1c Levels

19 Jun, 2017 | 12:59h | UTC

Racial Differences in the Relationship of Glucose Concentrations and Hemoglobin A1c Levels – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Glycation of Hemoglobin Differs by Race – Physician’s Briefing (free) AND Hemoglobin A1c Overestimates Average Glucose in Blacks – Medscape (free registration required) AND Why a key diabetes test may work differently depending on your race – CNN (free)

In this study with 104 black patients and 104 white patients with type 1 diabetes, HbA1c values in black persons were 0.4 percentage points higher than those in white persons for a given mean glucose concentration.

 


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