Archive for January 13th, 2011
HgbA1c and Diabetes Diagnosis – 2010 ADA Practice Guidelines
By medliorator - Last updated: Thursday, January 13, 2011
A summary of ADA’s 2010 practice guidelines (Diabetes Care. December 29, 2009; January 2010 Supplement): The American Diabetes Association (ADA) revised clinical practice recommendations for diabetes diagnosis promote hemoglobin A1c (A1c) as a faster, easier diagnostic test according to the revised evidence-based guidelines, an A1c score of 5.7% to 6.4% indicates prediabetes, and an A1c [...]