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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2679263" data-attributes="member: 372717">To answer your hba1c question -Hba1c measures the amount of sugar that attaches to your red blood cells. As they last 3 months (for most people) it gives a rough guess as to your average blood sugar over that period [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-hba1c.html[/URL]If your red blood cells have an unusually short or long lifespan, or you have various blood conditions, it can be inaccurate as a test for diabetes, and there is also the issue that there are two measuring systems for it. % and mmol/mol.  Your 9.2% is 77mmol/mol and corresponds to an average blood sugar of 12 mmol/L over the 3 months before the test[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-units-converter.html[/URL]</blockquote>

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