Minorities Less Likely to Receive A1c Diabetes Test

Minorities Less Likely to Receive A1c Diabetes Test: Ethnic and racial minorities bear a disproportionate share of America’s diabetes epidemic but are two to three times less likely than white patients to receive the A1c test during physician office visits, according to Washington State University researchers. Earlier this year, the American Diabetes Association announced guidelines encouraging the use of the A1c test in both the monitoring and diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease.