Table 2.
Ref. | Study population characteristics | Assessment of retinopathy | Method of determining cutoff | Cut off |
Tsugawa et al[48] | 3 yr follow-up; number = 19987 Japanese subjects; age ≥ 21 yr; diabetes not excluded | Nonmydriatic 45° retinal photograph | Test for nonlinearity in multivariate logistic regression models with restricted cubicspline Multivariate logistic regression with categories of HbA1c as independent variable | Possible threshold at HbA1c levels between 6% and 7% 6.5%-6.9% |
van Leiden et al[49] Hoorn study | 7.9-11.0 yr follow-up; number = 233; age 50-74 yr; analyses in total study group and in subjects without diabetes | Ophthalmoscopy and fundus photography | Logistic model with categories of HbA1c (adjusted for age, sex, hypertension, glucose metabolism category) | No threshold found |
HbA1c: Glycated hemoglobin.