• Cheng-Chieh Lin, Ching-Chu Chen, Fei-Na Chen, Chia-Ing Li, Chiu-Shong Liu, Wen-Yuan Lin, Sing-Yu Yang, Cheng-Chun Lee, and Tsai-Chung Li.
• Department of Family Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
• Am. J. Med. 2013 Nov 1; 126 (11): 1017.e11017.e1-10.

BackgroundThis study examined whether annual variation in glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) and fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as represented by the coefficient of variation (CV), can predict diabetic nephropathy independently of mean FPG, mean HbA1c, and other risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes.MethodsA computerized database of patients with type 2 diabetes aged ≥30 years and free of diabetic nephropathy (n = 3220) who were enrolled in the Diabetes Care Management Program of China Medical University Hospital before 2007 was used in a time-dependent Cox proportional hazards regression model.ResultsThe incidence rates of diabetic nephropathy were 16.11, 22.95, and 28.86 per 1000 person-years in the first, second, and third tertiles of baseline HbA1c-CV, respectively; the corresponding incidence rates for FPG-CV were 9.46, 21.23, and 37.51 per 1000 person-years, respectively. After multivariate adjustment, the corresponding hazard ratios for the second and third tertiles versus the first tertile of annual HbA1c-CV were 1.18 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.88-1.58) and 1.58 (95% CI, 1.19-2.11), respectively, and 1.55 (95% CI, 0.99-2.41) and 4.75 (95% CI, 3.22-7.01) for FPG-CV, respectively. The risks of diabetic nephropathy for HbA1c-CV and FPG-CV stratified according to age, gender, renal function, and hypertension status were provided.ConclusionsAnnual FPG and HbA1c variations have a strong association with diabetic nephropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes. Whether intervention for reducing glucose variation should be administered needs to be examined in a future study.Copyright © 2013. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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