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<blockquote data-quote="Squire Fulwood" data-source="post: 634056" data-attributes="member: 44622"><p>According to my limited understanding haemoglobin is not only glycated during periods of high blood sugar but every red cell takes on glucose in proportion to the blood glucose level at the time of its creation.</p><p></p><p>All red blood cells will contribute to the Hba1c reading but the three month old cells will be under-represented due to the fact that lots of them (more than one third) have already died off on the day of your blood test. Any high of a more recent nature will contribute more since there is a higher proportion of young cells than of old cells.</p><p></p><p>It is not a good idea to have a "bad" bout within the period running up to your test.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Squire Fulwood, post: 634056, member: 44622"] According to my limited understanding haemoglobin is not only glycated during periods of high blood sugar but every red cell takes on glucose in proportion to the blood glucose level at the time of its creation. All red blood cells will contribute to the Hba1c reading but the three month old cells will be under-represented due to the fact that lots of them (more than one third) have already died off on the day of your blood test. Any high of a more recent nature will contribute more since there is a higher proportion of young cells than of old cells. It is not a good idea to have a "bad" bout within the period running up to your test. [/QUOTE]
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