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I wanted to create a video on A1C and its accuracy.

It's definitely a great test to do as part of your evaluation, but don't put all your

eggs in that one basket because of several reasons.

Basically it's how much glucose that's sticking to your red blood cells over time, so it's

an average of blood sugars for like three months.

So if you have high sugar in your blood and it combines with the protein, the red blood

cell, it can measure it through a test called A1C or it's called hemoglobin A1C.

Now if it's 6.5 or more, that would correlate to a fasting blood glucose test of 126 milligrams

per deciliter and that would be diabetes.

Also if it's this high, there's also a correlation with increased retinopathy which is

damaged to the retina.

And they also found if you decrease it just by one percent, your death rate goes down

from diabetes by 27 percent.

Your microvascular complications, the problems and the eye and also the feet, the vascular system

to the nerves are your toes and your fingers and your eye goes down by 37 percent.

Also myocardial infarction goes down by 14 percent.

Now here's the problem when you measure A1C.

If you're anemic, by the way, 30 percent of the population is anemic, this is going

to be invalid.

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