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<blockquote data-quote="NoCrbs4Me" data-source="post: 1044316" data-attributes="member: 113206"><p>HbA1c is not an exact science. An HbA1c result depends on how long your red blood cells are around before they die/get replaced. The shorter the cells live, the lower the HbA1c for a particular level of average blood glucose. So an HbA1c value is not an exact correlation to a person's average blood glucose level. In other words, a person could have a supposedly non-diabetic HbA1c, yet have diabetes, and vice versa. The OGGT is a much better indication of whether a person has type 2 diabetes or not.</p><p></p><p>To give some perspective on the HbA1c test, here's a graph showing average blood glucose versus HbA1c:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]17432[/ATTACH] </p><p></p><p>It's not particularly helpful to tell someone who failed an OGTT that they were not diabetic. Clearly they were.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NoCrbs4Me, post: 1044316, member: 113206"] HbA1c is not an exact science. An HbA1c result depends on how long your red blood cells are around before they die/get replaced. The shorter the cells live, the lower the HbA1c for a particular level of average blood glucose. So an HbA1c value is not an exact correlation to a person's average blood glucose level. In other words, a person could have a supposedly non-diabetic HbA1c, yet have diabetes, and vice versa. The OGGT is a much better indication of whether a person has type 2 diabetes or not. To give some perspective on the HbA1c test, here's a graph showing average blood glucose versus HbA1c: [ATTACH=full]17432[/ATTACH] It's not particularly helpful to tell someone who failed an OGTT that they were not diabetic. Clearly they were. [/QUOTE]
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