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ea0035p343 | Diabetes (epidemiology, pathophysiology) | ECE2014

Relationship between age and Hba1c in Turkish patients

Acar Bilal , Unubol Mustafa , Senel Engin

Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) has been used as a clinically significant evaluation tool for analyses regarding glycemic control. Guidelines recommend patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) should aim for an A1C≤7.0%, but real world data is limited in the elderly regarding outcomes associated with different A1C levels.A thousand six hundred Turkish cases were enrolled in this study. The mean age of the patients was 57 (17 to 91) years. The mean HbA1...