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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnEGreen" data-source="post: 2548677" data-attributes="member: 223921">In a word no.The glycated level will be what ever it was over a three month period  but you cannot tell from the test what that level was.The A1c is produced when glucose attaches to  Haemoglobin  a shorter lifespan of the blood cell means that maybe less glucose will have attached to the protein but the level of glucose in the blood stream will be unchanged just less of it will have attached the reaction of glycation takes a known average over time to take place if you reduce the time the formula no longer gives an accurate result and is therefore useless for detemining how much glucose was present in the bood and it's the glucose levels that do the damage the A1c is just an indicator of how much glucose was present over a set amount of time 12 weeks shorten the time the formula no longer works. It is a standardised test.</blockquote>

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