HbA1c standardization: Background, progress and current issues

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 368-373

  Little, Randie R ^a   Rohlfing, Curt L ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

DIABETIC PATIENT; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; SWEDEN;

EID: 70349582586     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/LM3DUSEIBXHTVZ70     Document Type: Review

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