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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonergal" data-source="post: 2184596" data-attributes="member: 368709">Hi [USER=517732]@astroboy3546[/USER] and welcomeFirst a link to some useful information for newbies: <a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/basic-information-for-newly-diagnosed-diabetics.17088/" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/basic-information-for-newly-diagnosed-diabetics.17088/</a> have a good read and ask as many questions as you like.In response to some of your points above: 1) not sure of the reasons for the US having different diagnosis levels (pretty sure they’re different in a number of places). Really I think it’s an indication that much of this is a judgement call, and actually I’m not sure that A1C is the best measure. Looking at insulin production and insulin sensitivity would be a much better measure and provide an early warning system.2) I don’t buy into the whole glycaemic index thing. All carbs turn to glucose in the blood stream and those promoted as ‘good’ often have just as much impact on BG as those classified as ‘bad’. The only way to know for sure how individual foods affect you is to test your levels before and after food,3) A1C measures the amount of glucose that binds to Haemoglobin in your blood. It looks at the past 8-12 weeks, but with a bit of a bias towards more recent weeks. Here are a couple of links: <a href="https://labtestsonline.org.uk/tests/hba1c-test" target="_blank">https://labtestsonline.org.uk/tests/hba1c-test</a> <a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-hba1c.html" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-hba1c.html</a> it is quite a sensitive test and paying attention to what you eat over a couple of months can have a clear impact (in either direction).</blockquote>

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