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American Diabetes Association's Preferred Testing Method Shown To Fail At Identifying
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<blockquote data-quote="tD33NAt" data-source="post: 2651138" data-attributes="member: 124445"><p>In 2009, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommended that Hemoglobin A1c be exclusively used for the diagnosis of diabetes in children. The simple test measures longer-term blood sugar levels -- without requiring patients to fast overnight. However, a new U-M study has shown that these tests are not very accurate in children. "We found that Hemoglobin A1c is not as reliable a test for identifying children with diabetes or children at high risk for diabetes compared with other tests in children," says Joyce M. Lee, M.D., M.P.H...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/hsACU7josZ0" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~3/hsACU7josZ0/238032.php" target="_blank">More...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tD33NAt, post: 2651138, member: 124445"] In 2009, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommended that Hemoglobin A1c be exclusively used for the diagnosis of diabetes in children. The simple test measures longer-term blood sugar levels -- without requiring patients to fast overnight. However, a new U-M study has shown that these tests are not very accurate in children. "We found that Hemoglobin A1c is not as reliable a test for identifying children with diabetes or children at high risk for diabetes compared with other tests in children," says Joyce M. Lee, M.D., M.P.H...[IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/hsACU7josZ0[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~3/hsACU7josZ0/238032.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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