Re: A1c tests

Elizabeth Blake wrote:
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Elizabeth Blake wrote:


I was looking at the Children With Diabetes site today, and their weekly poll asks how people get their A1c tested. Choices were things like venous draw at lab, venous draw at doctor's office, home test kit. One choice was fingerstick at doctor's office, and that had the biggest response.

Is there really a fingerstick test to check A1c? Mine has always been done though blood drawn from a vein.

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Liz
Type1 4/1987

Yes, it's about $18 at Target. Walmart also carries it. It'a a one use meter, called Choice
http://www.meditests.com/a1cathome.html



Yes, but this choice was doing a fingerstick at a doctor's office. I know about the home tests, and was wondering if that's what they used at the doctor's office, or if there was some other fancy test available to doctor's.

I also wonder if a lot of people who picked that choice were actually getting an a1c test done, or if the doctor was just doing a random BG test, as most will do. I would think that most doctors would prefer to have the test done at a lab.

My endocrinologist told me that she'd used the in-office kit currently being marketed to doctors, but that it never matched the labs and there was no pattern of how it was off. She felt it was not accurate enough to be worth using.

The home test says it has a range of about 1%, so the result is only useful if you're trying to see if you are closer to 13% or 8%. If you're looking to see if you are at 5.5 or 6%, the result is useless.



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--Jenny

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