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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris24Main" data-source="post: 2738568" data-attributes="member: 585131">[USER=594231]@Robert Hancock[/USER] - if you don't mind I'm going to clip out that phrase for my own notes - I love it."HbA1c is not a measure of available blood glucose - it is an index expressing the last 3 months of glycated haemoglobin"Simply true on its face, but it's a lovely insight into the heart of the issue - available blood glucose - the amount of ready energy available to your cells from blood glucose... a sentence that even by itself lays out lots of other things - which cells, how well can the glucose enter, how well can the cell deal with the glucose, how well can the cell turn it into energy...A lot of that (not all by any means) is related to insulin, but not so much directly to the amount of glycated haemoglobin, but it's the best measure we have.I don't want to derail the thread, but I just wanted to say how much I like that phrase...</blockquote>

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