In article >, Katra
> wrote:
> In article >,
> Priscilla Ballou > wrote:
>
> > In article >,
> > (Dan Abel) wrote:
> > > Doctors like the hemoglobin test better. I'm not even sure why he put the
> > > fasting bg on there. With the hemoglobin at 6.1, he may have assumed that
> > > the 143 was just a fluke.
> >
> > In the US, A1c is not considered diagnostic.
I'm not sure what that means. If it means exactly what it says, than it
isn't applicable, because I was diagnosed with diabetes in 1972. The
concern now is control of the diabetes.
> 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
I thought it was gone decades ago if you are referring to the glucose
tolerance test, aka the glucose torture test. I think I took it three
times. I loved watching the little graph they drew afterwards, but the
test itself was pretty horrible.
For those who have never heard of it, the gtt consists of fasting for 12
hours and then getting a blood and urine sample. Immediately after that
you consume 100g (about a quarter pound) of pure glucose. Then you get
another blood and urine sample at 1/2 and then one hour, then every hour
after that.
After taking the test three times (about a year apart), my doctor
announced that they didn't do that test anymore, and they went to the two
hours after eating blood test. Now they don't do that one anymore, and
they do fasting tests. Who knows what will come next?
--
Dan Abel
Sonoma State University
AIS