Another HbA1c!

[Blythespirit]

Well done that man!!! Sounds like a good result all round and very well derserved! XXXXX

 

[redrevis]

almost as though it's something you shouldn't actually be able to achieve!🙄

I think you've hit the nail on the head.🙂

 

[shirl]

Yay, excellent news Northerner well done 🙂

Shirl

 

[rossi_mac]

I think I just swore! Well done big man, glad you got a good score you deserve it.🙂

 

[teapot8910]

Congratulations Alan! Am very jealous again 😛

 

[Northerner]

Thanks everyone 🙂 I know that I am very lucky to get results like this without half the effort so many of you put in.

 

[Hazel]

as ever Alan, great results - well done

all I will say to you is 4.8............... (a Glasgow meet thing)

seriously - well done

 

[Northerner]

as ever Alan, great results - well done

all I will say to you is 4.8............... (a Glasgow meet thing)

seriously - well done

Thanks Hazel 😉 I'm sure that 15.3 would have totally scuppered me, but thankfully it wasn't included! 🙂 Hope you have had a lovely birthday 🙂

 

[Hazel]

Brilliant day thanks

by the way - I just love your blog write - thanks for a great insight to Glasgow

Night

 

[spiritfree]

Good luck. I'll say 5.7.

 

[Northerner]

Good luck. I'll say 5.7.

Hehe, you'd be wrong - I've already logged a 5.4

 

[heasandford]

There was a study done a while ago (ACCORD) that seemed to show that people who achieved an HbA1c below 6.0 were more prone to heart attacks. However, the findings did not take into account that many of the participants were using a drug called Avandia, which has now been banned as it was found to...increase the risk of heart attacks! The problem with a lot of these studies seems to be that they don't always compare like with like, so the findings fir one group of people can't be applied directly to another. Jenny Ruhl has written a recent blog about this:

http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2011/06/avandia-is-sufficient-to-explain-excess.html

First of all, congratulations on your result, wonderful!

The link you gave refers to type 2 diabetes, the same survey has not been done for type 1. I wonder if there is much expectation of type 1 having HbA1c below 6%? I think we should do a survey and a graph of our results (I love graphs!) - we could even split them into 'type' results - I would predict lower results on average for type 2. Anyone else got any thoughts?