Diabetes mellitus is a common clinical condition that forms a risk factor for the development of heart disease and stroke. If you suffer from diabetes and have been on treatment for a while, you may undergo regular blood tests to determine how well your blood sugar levels have been controlled with treatment.
The common tests that are performed include fasting blood sugar, post prandial blood sugar (i.e blood sugar test 2 hours after a meal) and heaemoglobin A1c (HbA1c). In this article, we briefly cover HbA1c.
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