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<blockquote data-quote="ButtterflyLady" data-source="post: 952609" data-attributes="member: 43498"><p>If your HbA1c is in the non diabetic range and you haven't made drastic changes to your diet then you may not need them more often than annually. But people who are likely to have a high or significantly increasing HbA1c need more frequent testing. The NZ guidelines say testing is to be 3 monthly if the HbA1c is over 55, and then if lower it is 3-6 monthly. (Our guidelines are based on the Scottish ones). Hopefully the UK will adopt this practice one day, because I think the research would support it as being more cost effective than reducing the monitoring. In the meantime I encourage people to be assertive with doctors who don't want to monitor often enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ButtterflyLady, post: 952609, member: 43498"] If your HbA1c is in the non diabetic range and you haven't made drastic changes to your diet then you may not need them more often than annually. But people who are likely to have a high or significantly increasing HbA1c need more frequent testing. The NZ guidelines say testing is to be 3 monthly if the HbA1c is over 55, and then if lower it is 3-6 monthly. (Our guidelines are based on the Scottish ones). Hopefully the UK will adopt this practice one day, because I think the research would support it as being more cost effective than reducing the monitoring. In the meantime I encourage people to be assertive with doctors who don't want to monitor often enough. [/QUOTE]
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