Showing posts with label Is HbA1C Really a Diabetic Detector. Show all posts
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Is HbA1C Really a Diabetic Lie Detector?

Millions of newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics are told that their doctors have a means of telling whether those blood sugar levels they so carefully test every day are truthfully recorded. Diabetics are threatened and cajoled with the promise of a "lie detector," HbA1C, which measures the long-term average of blood sugar levels over a period of about 120 days. But is this measure really useful in that way?