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. 2021 Jul 22;23(7):e27858. doi: 10.2196/27858

Table 6.

Short-term outcome for antiglycemic treatment based on current glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)

Current HbA1c level Samples, n Before adjustment After propensity score weighting adjustment


Incidence, n (%) P value ORb 95% CI P value
Low (<7%)

<.001 1.79 1.69-1.89 <.001

Concordant 60,428 43,836 (72.54)




Nonconcordant 5959 4034 (67.7)



Medium (7-9%)

<.001 1.76 1.69-1.83 <.001

Concordant 14,025 3816 (27.21)




Nonconcordant 76,423 16,365 (21.41)



High (>9%)

<.001 1.83 1.63-2.05 <.001

Concordant 4217 611 (14.49)




Nonconcordant 17,437 1108 (6.35)



aConfounders considered: age, gender, ethnicity, smoking, duration of diabetes, HbA1c, systolic blood pressure/diastolic blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, BMI, estimated glomerular filtration rate, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, macrovascular complication, microvascular complication, hypoglycemia history.

bOR: odds ratio.