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Labels: HbA1c
posted by Dr. Joe @ 7/30/2008 06:19:00 AM
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J. Joseph Prendergast has been a practicing physician for over 30 years. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine as well as Endocrinology and Metabolism.
2 Comments:
It is hard to believe that we would not want our A1c to be normal as a person without diabetes.
I think it of more concern how we get to normal. Eating high carb diets and taking industral doses of medications is certainly not the way to get to normal.
The Epic-Norfolk study showed that even with an a1c of 6% over 5% increases your risk for cardiovascular death by 28%.
Steve Freed, R.Ph., CDE
Publisher
www.diabetesincontrol.com
Since 1991 I have had no hospital admissions and less than a half percent advancing complications by focusing on everything else but A1c. That did result in good values however.
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