Diabetes Won’t Wait…………Not Even 8 Minutes!

For Home Use!

 

A1cNow™ is an instant, disposable HbA1c test now available for home use in a single or double pack. 

 

As we all should know, the A1c blood test, is an average of your blood sugars every second of the day for approx. 90 days.  This is a measure of how well your diabetes management is doing.  According to the ADA, if your blood sugars are not close to normal (4-6%), the test should be done every 90 days. 

In a study reported in Diabetes Care: it was concluded that: In the setting of a controlled randomized trial, the immediate feedback of HbA1c results at the time of patient encounters resulted in a significant improvement of glycemic control at 6-month follow-up and persisted for the 12-month study.  Diabetes Care 22:1785-1789 

Last month the A1cNow™ was made available to medical professionals in a 10-pack kit is now available for your patients to purchase in a single or double pack with instructions. 

A1cNow is a single-use, disposable monitor for the quantitative measurement of %HbA1c in a fingerstick with just 3 simple steps and the results are available in 8 minutes.  The monitor which performs over 25 internal chemical and electronic quality control checks before giving you the result.  No need to worry if there is enough blood or too much blood or if too cold or too hot, because it will give you an error message if that happens.

 

  Use it once and throw it away!

 

Factory calibration of the A1cNow test is performed with a set of blood samples that have been directly quantitated by a National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Program (NGSP) certified laboratory using an NGSP certified method.  Thus, the calibration of the A1cNow test is traceable to the NGSP and an NGSP certified method.  Once calibrated, no in-field calibration is needed thereby minimizing user error. Allowing for the normal variation seen with all laboratory methods, this calibration process means that a 7% HbA1c on A1cNow is the same as a 7% HbA1c on other instruments that also calibrate to NGSP standards. 

No need to worry about accuracy, a Clinical study was performed in December 2001 to evaluate current accuracy and precision of A1cNow.  For the accuracy evaluation, 50 people with diabetes were enrolled in the study.  Three lots of A1cNow were tested.  Trained professional users performed fingersticks on the subjects to collect samples to test 2 replicates for each lot, for a total of 6 tests per subject.  A venous blood sample was collected from each person, and this sample was tested by an NGSP- certified laboratory method for %HbA1c.  The two answers were then compared, with the following results. 

            The accuracy of A1cNow is, on average, 98%.  This means that a true 7% will read, on average, between 6.9% and 7.1%.   These results are similar to a previous accuracy study, supporting the accurate calibration of A1cNow to the NGSP method, and also reinforcing the benefit of a single-use device that is factory calibrated and cannot undergo fluctuations in the field. 

For More information and how you can purchase single units for home use or a kit of 10 tests for office use, click here 

http://www.a1cnow.net

 

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