Home / Resources / Articles (page 343)

Articles

The list of articles below are ordered by most recent. You will find articles here that are also listed in other categories. The list below is a catch-all for all articles on the site.

Hemoglobinopathies May Distort HbA1C – A Caution to Practitioners

Measuring glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) gives us a patient’s long term average blood glucose levels.1 Since HbA1c measures the percentage of patients’ glycosolated hemoglobin, patients who possess variants of hemoglobin can exhibit false readings. Such variants, called hemoglobinopathies, can include inherited hemoglobin variants, elevated fetal hemoglobin, and hemoglobin S and E …

Read More »