Validation of Point-of-Care Glucose Testing for Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes

Table 1

Subject characteristics according to the 2006 WHO classification of glycaemia [2].

Variables	Subject category
	DM	IFG	IGT	NGT	Total
𝑁	137	29	28	43	237
M/F	62/75	12/17	11/17	14/29	99/138
Age (years)	59±11	52±15	55±16	42±15	55±14
BMI (kg/m^2)	30.7±4.2	29.4±4.0	29.9±4.1	28.2±4.2	29.3±4.1
FPG-RLP (mmol/L)	8.7±1.7^a,b,c	6.4±0.3^c,d	6.2±0.7^c,d	5.3±0.5^b,c,d	7.5±2.0
FPG-POC (mmol/L)	8.8±1.7^a,b,c	6.5±0,5^c,d	6.2±0.8^b,d	5.4±0.6^b,c,d	7.6±2.0^†
2 h PG-RLP (mmol/L)	11.9±3.8^a,b,c	6.7±1.2^c,d	9.8±1.2^a,b,d	6.3±1.3^c,d	9.9±3.8
2 h PG-POC (mmol/L)	12.0±3.5^a,b,c†	6.9±1.0^c,d	9.9±1.2^a,b,d	6.8±1.2^c,d††	10.2±3.6^††
HbA1c (%)	6.8±1.1^a,b,c	5.7±0.35^d	5.9±0.72^d	5.5±0.32^d	6.4±1.07
HbA1c (mmol/mol)	52±12^a,b,c	39±4^d	42±8^d	36±7^d	47±12
Hct (L/L)	0.427±0.034^a,c	0.413±0.027^d	0.402±0.031	0.40±0.034^d	0.419±0.035

𝑃<0.05 versus ^aNGT, ^bIFG, ^cIGT, and ^dDM.
^†𝑃<0.05; ^††𝑃<0.0001 versus RLP.