Translating the A1C assay into estimated average glucose values

Diabetes Care

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Rodríguez Segade, Santiago ^a,b   Rodríguez, Javier ^a,b   Paz, Juan Manuel ^b   Camiña, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LETTER;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 64549116851     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc08-1214     Document Type: Letter

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