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Effectiveness of HbA1c test

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Don't know whether anyone has come across this.

http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6538

Sadly, it doesn't mean that high tests are wrong, but those around the edges of prediabetes are untrustworthy, the conclusion being that HbA1c results for prediabetes are neither "accurate nor specific", or in layman's terms the margin of error on this test is very large!
Food for thought.
 
Glucose levels happens to be only the later half of the problem for T2D.

Even if you have normal, good glucose reading...but chronically elevated insulin level, the metabolic damage has begun...
 
I think this is quite well known which is why my GP ordered a number of different tests on diagnosis. The DSN still offers me a GTT every year which I refuse(YUK).

Could not see anything about the sickle cell trait in the study which can also skew diagnostic tests.
 
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