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To the Editor The American Diabetes Association added a new criterion for the diagnosis of prediabetes, including a glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) level of 5.7% to 6.4%,1 and fasting plasma glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin levels have an advantage for predicting diabetes in the future.2 I read with interest the article by Bersoux and colleagues3 reporting that HbA1c alone cannot identify patients with prediabetes. According to the definition of prediabetes, the predictive ability of prediabetes by HbA1c is suspected to be low. On this point, Heianza et al2 recently conducted a follow-up study of 6,241 people (4,670 men and 1,571 women), and 2,092 of them were identified as prediabetic. Among the prediabetic patients, …
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