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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Using a simple, nonfasting, blood test to screen children for diabetes may have seemed too good to be true. Now, it turns out that it was.
A new study published in the journal Diabetes Care found that hemoglobin A1c is not very effective for diagnosing diabetes in children and misses many cases. Instead the researchers recommend using the old standbys?random glucose or the nonfasting 1-hour glucose challenge test.
In 2009, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommended that HbA1c be exclusively used for the diagnosis of diabetes in children. Organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, however, did not endorse HbA1c as the exclusive measure.
http://www.modernmedicine.com/moder...Article/detail/750775?contextCategoryId=40137
A new study published in the journal Diabetes Care found that hemoglobin A1c is not very effective for diagnosing diabetes in children and misses many cases. Instead the researchers recommend using the old standbys?random glucose or the nonfasting 1-hour glucose challenge test.
In 2009, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommended that HbA1c be exclusively used for the diagnosis of diabetes in children. Organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, however, did not endorse HbA1c as the exclusive measure.
http://www.modernmedicine.com/moder...Article/detail/750775?contextCategoryId=40137