http://challengediabetes.diabetech.net/2007/09/06/a1c-to-mbg-translation-a-most-underutilized-tool/ Thoughts about current approaches to managing diabetes Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:20:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://challengediabetes.diabetech.net/2007/09/06/a1c-to-mbg-translation-a-most-underutilized-tool/#comment-11284 Challenge Diabetes » Blog Archive » Focus On the Message Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:11:39 +0000 http://challengediabetes.diabetech.net/2007/09/06/a1c-to-mbg-translation-a-most-underutilized-tool/#comment-11284 [...] While the debate will rage for years whether or not it is beneficial to patients to use average bloo... we can only hope that the new research will publish final results ASAP and we can then get on to the business of communicating to patients why they should be striving for near normal (non-diabetic) glucose levels and why they should be demanding improved accuracy and precision from the diagnostic tests used to determine the true A1c, MBG and ADAG. Without an accurate A1c, the formula doesn’t matter or otherwise GIGO (garbage in garbage out). [...] [...] While the debate will rage for years whether or not it is beneficial to patients to use average bloo… we can only hope that the new research will publish final results ASAP and we can then get on to the business of communicating to patients why they should be striving for near normal (non-diabetic) glucose levels and why they should be demanding improved accuracy and precision from the diagnostic tests used to determine the true A1c, MBG and ADAG. Without an accurate A1c, the formula doesn’t matter or otherwise GIGO (garbage in garbage out). [...]

]]>