New research suggests that blood sugar stability, measured by HbA1c time in range (TIR), might provide better insights into this risk than traditional HbA1c levels. The study found that veterans with ...

In a review of 258 patients with Type 2 diabetes who underwent metabolic bariatric surgery or medical and lifestyle interventions, including GLP-1 drugs, surgery was superior regardless of social ...

Monitoring your A1C is essential for both preventing and managing type 2 diabetes. Why? Regular testing can help detect elevated blood sugar levels and assess the effectiveness of your current ...

Long-term A1c from the time of type 1 diabetes diagnosis strongly predicts the development of severe retinopathy and nephropathy, new data suggest. The results are from a 32-year follow-up of 447 ...

Diabetes is more common than you might think. More than 37 million people are living with diabetes in the United States—or 1 in 10 people, according to the CDC. The vast majority of those people have ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m confused by the relationship between my blood glucose level and A1C. My blood glucose has crept up from 100 to 112 in one year after I started taking 40 mg of atorvastatin. My A1C ...

22% of US adults reported not knowing their current A1c value when they participated in a recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) assessment. They had been diagnosed with ...

Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) or simply A1C is one of the commonly used tests to diagnose prediabetes, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, as well as the main test to help manage diabetes. This simple blood test ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A test that shows blood sugar levels over a span of several weeks is not only the best way to diagnose diabetes but also may be better at identifying who is at risk of getting ...

Diabetes is a lifelong disease that affects almost 12% of people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease ...