In the Special Communication entitled
"Relationship Between Fasting Plasma Glucose and Glycosylated
Hemoglobin: Potential for False-Positive Diagnoses of Type 2 Diabetes
Using New Diagnostic Criteria" published in the April 7, 1999, issue
of THE JOURNAL (1999;281:1203-1210), there was incorrect wording in
the column headings in
Table 1 on page 1206.
The corrected table is reprinted here.
Table. Distribution of Hemoglobin
A1c Levels According to Fasting Plasma Glucose
Concentrations*
Diagnosis
Fasting Plasma Glucose Level,
mmol/L (mg/dL)
National Health
and Nutrition Examination
Survey (NHANES III) Data
Set
Meta-Analysis
Research Group Data
Set
No. of
Subjects (%)†
Hemoglobin
A1c, %
No. of
Subjects
(%)†
Hemoglobin A1c, %
≤6.1
6.2-7.0
≥7.1
≤6.3
6.4-7.2
≥7.3
Normal
<6.1 (110)
2284 (84)
97.3
2.7
0.1
7908 (89)
96.2
3.6
0.2
Impaired
fasting
glucose
6.1-6.9 (110-125)
373 (11)
86.7
13.1
0.2
602 (7)
81.4
16.4
2.2
Diabetes
by new fasting criterion
only
7.0-7.7 (126-139)
77 (2)
60.9
35.8
3.4
131 (1)
59.6
32.8
7.6
Diabetes
by old and new fasting
criterion
≥7.8 (140)
102 (3)
18.6
32.5
48.9
276 (3)
16.7
21.0
62.3
*To convert hemoglobin A1c from percentage of total
hemoglobin to proportion of total hemoglobin, multiply by 0.01.
†Based on the US population after weighting the population actually
studied, which oversampled
minorities.