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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Ophthalmol. 2015 Aug;133(8):888–896. doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2015.1312

Table 2.

Primary analysis of HbA1c* at 1 Year

More Frequent Cohort Annual Cohort

Control N=424 Intervention N=423 Control N=292 Intervention N=312
Baseline HbA1c (%)
 Median (25th, 75th percentile) 8.0 (7.2, 9.0) 8.2 (7.3, 9.3) 8.0 (7.1, 9.1) 8.0 (7.2, 9.3)
 Mean ± SD 8.3 ± 1.6 8.5 ± 1.7 8.2 ± 1.5 8.4 ± 1.7
One Year HbA1c (%)
 Median (25th, 75th percentile) 7.9 (7.0, 9.0) 8.0 (7.0, 9.1) 8.0 (7.0, 9.2) 7.9 (7.1, 9.2)
 Mean ± SD 8.2 ± 1.7 8.2 ± 1.6 8.2 ± 1.6 8.3 ± 1.8

Change in HbA1c from baseline (%)
 Median (25th, 75th percentile) −0.1 (−0.6, +0.5) −0.1 (−0.8, +0.5) 0.0 (−0.6, +0.5) −0.1 (−0.6, +0.5)
 Mean ± SD −0.1 ± 1.5 −0.3 ± 1.4 0.0 ± 1.1 −0.1 ± 1.6
Mean Difference (Intervention – Control) ± Standard Error −0.09 ± 0.09 −0.05 ± 0.09
95% Confidence Interval (−0.29, + 0.12) (−0.27, +0.18)
P-value 0.35 0.63

% with HbA1c < 7.0% 97 (23%) 97 (23%) 70 (24%) 69 (22%)
% with HbA1c > 10.0% 47 (11%) 61 (14%) 34 (12%) 44 (14%)
% with relative decrease in HbA1c ≥ 10% 90 (21%) 106 (25%) 50 (17%) 64 (21%)
% with absolute decrease in HbA1c ≥ 0.5% 131 (31%) 154 (36%) 83 (28%) 92 (29%)
% with absolute increase in HbA1c ≥ 0.5% 112 (26%) 110 (26%) 76 (26%) 78 (25%)
*

From central lab measurement.

More Frequent Cohort:
  • 1 year HbA1c missing for 10 control, 5 intervention
  • ‡From a repeated measures model adjusting for baseline HbA1c and correlation between patients within site, assuming the correlation is the same for any pair of patients at a given site, and the within site correlation is the same at all sites. P-value from same model adjusting for additional potential confounders (race, education level, income) = 0.29
Annual Cohort:
  • 1 year HbA1c missing for 8 control, 8 intervention
  • ‡From a repeated measures model adjusting for baseline HbA1c and correlation between patients within site, assuming the correlation is the same for any pair of patients at a given site, and the within site correlation is the same at all sites. Pvalue from same model adjusting for additional potential confounders (race, education level, income) = 0.44