Journal of Diabetes Research
Volume 2017 (2017), Article ID 7072538, 2 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7072538

Corrigendum

Corrigendum to “Optimal Hemoglobin A1c Levels for Screening of Diabetes and Prediabetes in the Japanese Population”

Masanori Shimodaira,¹ Shinji Okaniwa,¹ Norinao Hanyu,¹ and Tomohiro Nakayama²

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Iida Municipal Hospital, 438 Yawata-machi, Iida, Nagano 395-8502, Japan
²Division of Companion Diagnostics, Department of Pathology of Microbiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Ooyaguchi-kamimachi, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan

Correspondence should be addressed to Masanori Shimodaira; masanori19810813@yahoo.co.jp

Received 26 July 2017; Accepted 14 August 2017; Published 24 September 2017

Copyright © 2017 Masanori Shimodaira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

In the article titled “Optimal Hemoglobin A1c Levels for Screening of Diabetes and Prediabetes in the Japanese Population” [1], there were errors in Table 3 and Figure 1, which are corrected as follows.

Table 3: Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, positive and negative likelihood ratios, and accuracy for detecting diabetes defined by OGTT.

HbA1c (%)
Youden’s index
Sensitivity (%)
Specificity (%)
Positive predictive value (%)
Negative predictive value (%)
Positive likelihood ratio
Negative likelihood ratio
Accuracy

≧5.6
0.399
94.2
45.7
10.4
99.2
1.7
0.1
48.8

≧5.7
0.535
94.2
59.3
13.3
99.3
2.3
0.1
61.5

≧5.8
0.625
91.9
70.6
17.3
99.2
3.1
0.1
71.9

≧5.9
0.685
88.4
80.2
23.0
99.0
4.5
0.1
80.7

≧6.0
0.714
83.7
87.6
31.2
98.8
6.8
0.2
87.4

≧6.1
0.660
69.8
96.3
55.6
97.9
18.7
0.3
94.6

≧6.2
0.627
65.1
97.6
64.4
97.7
27.0
0.4
95.6

≧6.3
0.557
57.0
98.7
74.2
97.2
43.1
0.4
96.1

≧6.4
0.526
53.5
99.1
79.3
97.0
57.3
0.5
96.2

≧6.5
0.449
45.3
99.5
86.7
96.5
90.6
0.5
96.1

Figure 1: ROC curve analysis for the ability of HbA1c to predict diabetes defined by OGTT values.

References

M. Shimodaira, S. Okaniwa, N. Hanyu, and T. Nakayama, “Optimal hemoglobin A1c levels for screening of diabetes and prediabetes in the Japanese population,” Journal of Diabetes Research, vol. 2015, Article ID 932057, 6 pages, 2015.