Role of Composite Glycemic Indices: A Comparison of the Comprehensive Glucose Pentagon Across Diabetes Types and HbA1c Levels

• Main Authors: Chandran, Suresh Rama, Vigersky, Robert A., Thomas, Andreas, Lim, Lee Ling, Ratnasingam, Jeyakantha, Tan, Alexander, Gardner, Daphne S.L.
• Format: Article
• Published: Mary Ann Liebert 2020
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/25344/; https://doi.org/10.1089/dia.2019.0277

Background: Complex changes of glycemia that occur in diabetes are not fully captured by any single measure. The Comprehensive Glucose Pentagon (CGP) measures multiple aspects of glycemia to generate the prognostic glycemic risk (PGR), which constitutes the relative risk of hypoglycemia combined wit...