C. Ronald Kahn, M.D. President and Director, Joslin Diabetes Center What is the A1c blood test? The hemoglobin A1C test is a measure of what we call long term glucose control. The way this works ...

The DCCT, published in 1993, established hemoglobin A1c as the gold standard for assessing diabetes control. By utilizing advanced machine learning ... and hypothesis-testing cheaper and much ...

Central to the diagnosis and management of patients with diabetes mellitus is the measurement of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c). Major studies have defined ... Through the NGSP, proficiency testing (PT) has ...