For a diagnosis of diabetes, how high does the A1c have to be?
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Right now the diagnosis is made based on glucose reading. The present recommendation is that anyone with a 6.5% A1C be screened for diabetes with a glucose test (fasting or two hr PP).
In the future with all the studies that have been done relating and validating the relationship between A1C and glucose, it will be another diagnostic test and not just one of monitoring. Maybe this year or next but it will happen in the future that one will be able to diagnose diabetes based on the A1C reading.
Keep an eye on the ADA and other endocrine societies recommendations in the future with regards to A1C.
4-6 is normal, but mine was only 7 and 7.1 (only around the 150’s), so they also did a test that took the average sugar of the last 2 weeks, which was 379, so they decided I was diabetic. But if it is only slightly raised it may be you were sick and so thats why they did the two week test, because you don’t want to put a non-diabetic on insulin…
And A1c’s don’t diagnose the diabetes, two fasting blood sugars done on a lab above 120 is the diagnoseses.
Right now the diagnosis is made based on glucose reading. The present recommendation is that anyone with a 6.5% A1C be screened for diabetes with a glucose test (fasting or two hr PP).
In the future with all the studies that have been done relating and validating the relationship between A1C and glucose, it will be another diagnostic test and not just one of monitoring. Maybe this year or next but it will happen in the future that one will be able to diagnose diabetes based on the A1C reading.
Keep an eye on the ADA and other endocrine societies recommendations in the future with regards to A1C.
My doctors, diabetic educators, and diabetic association magazine all say anything above 7 A1c is high. They prefer below 7.
4-6 is normal, but mine was only 7 and 7.1 (only around the 150’s), so they also did a test that took the average sugar of the last 2 weeks, which was 379, so they decided I was diabetic. But if it is only slightly raised it may be you were sick and so thats why they did the two week test, because you don’t want to put a non-diabetic on insulin…
And A1c’s don’t diagnose the diabetes, two fasting blood sugars done on a lab above 120 is the diagnoseses.