Prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes in rural Tehri Garhwal, India: influence of diagnostic method

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Table 3 Diabetic status based on fasting blood glucose or post-prandial glucose, among those diagnosed as pre-diabetic or diabetic using HbA_1c

Values are number of cases and column percentages
HbA_1c glycosylated hemoglobin, FBG fasting blood glucose, PBG post-prandial blood glucose
^aTested at time 1; pre-diabetes was defined as 5.7% ≤ HbA_1c ≤ 6.4%; diabetes was defined as HbA_1c ≥ 6.5%
^bTested at time 2; pre-diabetes was defined as 100 mg/dL ≤ FBG ≤ 125 mg/dL or 140 mg/dL ≤ PBG ≤ 200 mg/dL; diabetes was defined as FBG > 125 mg/dL or PBG > 200 mg/dL
In the instances where FBG was not available, diagnosis was based on PBG

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