research published in JAMA suggests that “adding glycemia measures to conventional cardiovascular risk assessment” may provide “little additional prognostic information.” Investigators also found that “adding information about blood glucose did not result in a significant improvement in the classification of people used to help decide about preventive treatment.” the investigators looked at “individual patient data from 294,998 participants without diabetes included in 73 prospective studies to determine if adding HbA1c information to traditional risk factors improved the prediction of cardiovascular risk.” Over a “median follow-up period of nearly 10 years, there were 20,840 fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events.”
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:17:03 +0000
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