{"id":989611,"date":"2021-04-12T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T08:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/?p=989611"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:49:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T09:49:44","slug":"diabetes-management-hba1c-test-for-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/diabetes-management-hba1c-test-for-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes Management \u2013 HbA1C Test for Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">\n<p><strong>HbA1C \u2013<\/strong>&nbsp;It is a blood test to detect your average blood sugar in the past 2 to 3 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;It is usually done<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>To diagnose diabetes.<\/li><li>To check if the treatment given is adequate in controlling the sugar levels. It is abbreviated as HbA1C.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Normal Levels<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 it varies accordingly as<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;For diagnosing diabetes<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>If A1C was done to check if you have diabetes, your A1C should be 6 or lesser.<\/li><li>If your A1C is 6.5 or higher, it indicates you have diabetes. If your A1C is between 5.7 and 6.4, you maybe at risk for<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;You should adopt measures to prevent Diabetes. Example \u2013 Diet control and regular exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>To check progress of treatment&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013If you are already on diabetic medicines and you had an HbA1C test to know your sugar control,your A1C should be 7 or less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Frequency of HbA1C test<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 This depends on whether you are a diabetic or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>If A1C test was done to check for diabetes and your A1C was less than 5.7 , you may get A1C tests done every 3 years.<\/li><li>If A1C test &nbsp;was done to check for diabetes and your A1C was between 5.7 and 6.4 , you should get A1C tests done every year.<\/li><li>If you are a diabetic and your blood sugar is under good control, you should get A1C tests every 6 months.<\/li><li>If you are a diabetic and you have recently changed treatment or your sugar levels are not under control, you should have A1C tests every 3 months.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Importance of HbA1C<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 &nbsp;Many Studies reveal that having an HbA1C close to normal prevents complications such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Diabetic retinopathy( Eye disease)<\/li><li>Diabetic Neuropathy ( Nerve damage )<\/li><li>Diabetic Nephropathy (Kidney disease )<\/li><li>Stroke and Heart attack prevention.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HbA1C \u2013&nbsp;It is a blood test to detect your average blood sugar in the past 2 to 3 months. &nbsp;It is usually done To diagnose diabetes. To check if the treatment given is adequate in controlling the sugar levels. It is abbreviated as HbA1C. &nbsp;Normal Levels&nbsp;\u2014 it varies accordingly as &nbsp;For diagnosing diabetes&nbsp;\u2013 If A1C&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":989612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989613,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989611\/revisions\/989613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaclinics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}