Yesterday I quoted the CDC National Diabetes Fact Sheet. The experts believe that better control of your blood sugar will decrease complications. How will your doctor know how you’ve been doing at controlling your blood sugar? One test doctors use to monitor a person’s blood sugar on a regular basis is called the A1C (glycated hemoglobin) test. This blood test tells what a person’s blood sugar has been for the past 12 weeks. This test shows how much glucose or sugar attaches to the hemoglobin part of the red blood cells. When the body makes hemoglobin, it has no sugar attached to it but as the hemoglobin circulates through the blood stream, the glucose attaches permanently and this reflects a person’s blood sugar level. The ideal A1C blood test result is below 7%.
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