Although the normal HbA1c level is below 5.7%, patients with diabetes usually target around 7%, though the target varies ...

Study results published in Diabetes Care highlight the importance of maintaining HbA1c lower than 7% to avoid proliferative diabetic retinopathy and macroalbuminuria for people with type 1 ...

Patient flow through the study is shown in Figure 1. Of the 1,253 patients initially screened for diabetes, 56 had prevalent unrecognized diabetes. We achieved 3,257 person-years of follow-up on ...

The range of normal values for HbA1c has been defined according to a small study that involved only about 200 people with type 1 diabetes mellitus, in which the ratio of females to males was not ...

There was an increase of HbA1c of 0.153% per decade in men and a comparable increase of 0.191% per decade in women ; The authors concluded, “The present study confirmed the previously observed ...

Patients with high-normal HbA1c may require follow-up sooner than 3 years, especially if they are significantly overweight or obese. This predictive value suggests that HbA1c may be a useful test ...