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Burden of Diabetes and First Evidence for the Utility of HbA1c for Diagnosis and Detection of Diabetes in Urban Black South Africans: The Durban Diabetes Study

OBJECTIVE: Glycated haemoglobin (HbA(1c)) is recommended as an additional tool to glucose-based measures (fasting plasma glucose [FPG] and 2-hour plasma glucose [2PG] during oral glucose tolerance test [OGTT]) for the diagnosis of diabetes; however, its use in sub-Saharan African populations is not...

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Autores principales: Hird, Thomas R., Pirie, Fraser J., Esterhuizen, Tonya M., O’Leary, Brian, McCarthy, Mark I., Young, Elizabeth H., Sandhu, Manjinder S., Motala, Ayesha A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4999239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27560687
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161966