In article >,
Katra > wrote:

> In article >,
> Priscilla Ballou > wrote:

> > In the US, A1c is not considered diagnostic.
>
> Depends on how up to date your doctor is. ;-)
>
> The Endocrinologist I am seeing uses it almost exclusively for
> diagnosing diabetes or hypoglycemia... The old GTT is pretty well gone
> bye bye except for catching early gestational diabetes. I only see they
> OB-Gyn's doing them now.

In the US, it's fasting BG which is used for diagnosis for the most
part. Repeated fasting BG of over 125 = formal diagnosis of DM.

Prsicilla

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