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The bottom line is that if you use an HbA1c measurement as a screening test, you'll have a lot of false-negatives and some false-positives," said Mary Rhee, MD, Assistant Professor of Endocrinology at Emory University in Atlanta. And in this day and age when diabetes is a worsening public health epidemic not only in the U.S. but also around the world, we can't afford to end up with more cases of undiagnosed diabetes."
Dr. Rhee and colleagues compared the identification of prediabetes, dysglycemia (diabetes or prediabetes), and diabetes by the recommended HbA1c-based screening with the conventional oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).

 

Given that the proposed HbA1c diagnostic for screening are both insensitive and racially discrepant, what is the optimal way to screen for diabetes? Dr. Rhee recommended that doctors perform the standard 75 gram OGTT, or, at the very least, a fasting glucose level followed by the OGTT in individuals whose levels are abnormal (100 mg/dL and above).
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