Re: A1C - waiting times!






On 2/2/10 2:30 AM, in article hk8us7$umh$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"RodS" <fred@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2/02/2010 7:33 PM, Julie Bove wrote:

The A1c is not a fasting test. Now it's possible you are getting something
else done (like cholesterol) that should be done fasting, but that doesn't
have to be.


Got news for you it is a fasting test here, always has been, must be
different there.


Not fasting here either. Still have to fast though because my doctor always
wants a fasting glucose and probably a Cholesterol/Triglicerides scan.

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