OBJECTIVEThe performance of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) was compared in screening for diabetes by an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in patients undergoing coronary angiography (CAG).RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODSPatients without known diabetes admitted for CAG were eligible. OGTT and HbA1c were assessed 2–4 weeks after hospital discharge. The performance of HbA1c and FPG was evaluated by using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis.RESULTSDiabetes was diagnosed in 83 of 400 patients (20.8%). The area under the ROC curve was higher for FPG than for HbA1c (0.81 vs. 0.73, P = 0.032). We proposed a screening algorithm and validated it in another 170 patients. Overall, this algorithm reduced the number of OGTTs by 71.4% (sensitivity 74.4%, specificity 100%).CONCLUSIONSFPG performed better than HbA1c in screening for diabetes in patients undergoing CAG. A screening algorithm might help to reduce the number of OGTTs.

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Using HbA1c and OGTT to screen, we reported an extremely high prevalence of previously undiagnosed AGR (28.0% diabetes and 60.4% prediabetes) in patients admitted for CAG. HbA1c may be adopted as an alternative to OGTT for screening for AGR in patients undergoing CAG.

Our study showed that shorter (GT)n repeat in the HO-1 gene promoter were associated with a lower Jeopardy severity score in patients with significant CAD.