Where is the HbA1c?

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Where is the HbA1c?

The average glucose measurement is becoming ever closer to replacing the HBA1c. This is for lots of reasons.

It is actually measuring HbA1a, b and HbA1c since it was easier for the labs to do and no one complained.

But we have lived with it for years, judged many studies merits on it even though doctors and patients really didn’t know what it meant.

But the continuous monitors, the new at home Viterion transmission system to go to the doctor’s office and the patient’s home all graphed and ready to read makes it very likely we can do a better job without the HbA1c.

We are going to start a project that will include the Viterion product to prove how we can do with this. Will we decide success by the HbA1c value we finally get?