According to a statement published in the July edition of “The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism”, experts say that the test used to monitor levels of blood sugar in diabetes patients can be also used to detect diabetes in patients, who have undetected diabetes.
In normal conditions, the hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) test is done to check the amount of glucose that has been exposed to red blood cells in the previous 120 days, which is also termed as the average life span of the cells.
In the recently released statement, Dr. Christopher Saudek, who is the director of Hopkins Comprehensive Diabetes Center Baltimore, told that the HbA1c test can be used as the front-line method to identify patients if they have diabetes or not. This test can also be used for identifying patients, who have high risk for the disease.
Saudek and his colleagues concluded that the HbA1c test doesn’t require any sort of fasting and neither this test gets affected by any sort of short term changes in exercise and diet. Moreover, since this test measures long-term glucose control, it can help to identify as many as estimated six million people in the United States, who do not know that they have diabetes.
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