What would be the outcome if the American Diabetes Association recommendations of 2010 had been followed in our pratice in 1998–2006?

Abstract

In a population at risk for diabetes, the HbA(1c) strategy could lead to diagnosing more cases of dysglycaemia and to treating more patients with metformin than the oral glucose tolerance test strategy. The consistency of either diagnostic criteria was low. The patients with the highest a priori risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease were those fulfilling both oral glucose tolerance test and HbA(1c) criteria.