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New Way of Reporting on Long Term BGL's

"Diet and Health News" at Low Carb Diet Support: "There seems to be some support for reporting HbA1c's, using an average blood glucose level for the period in question. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/559262 I presume the idea is to reinforce to the patient that the score reported ...."

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Old 07-10-2007, 06:45 PM
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Default New Way of Reporting on Long Term BGL's

There seems to be some support for reporting HbA1c's, using an average blood glucose level for the period in question.


http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/559262


I presume the idea is to reinforce to the patient that the score reported has to do with glucose levels and not really anything to do with hemoglobin, per se.
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