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Silly questions 101 - what is HBa1c?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jonnyjibbsuk
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Glucose attaches itself to blood molecules and forms chains. From the length of the chain the clever people at the test lab can tell the average amount of glucose you've had in your system over the past three months.

In theory, if you added up all your self test data and averaged it out, you'd come up with a not too disimilar figure.
 
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