[Question] how do you actually verify A1c
how do you actually verify A1c — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice.
Assumed the weight endpoints from the obesity trials applied to my situation. They are different programmes.
Variability dropped before the average did, which was visible on the sensor and invisible on the lab result.
Kept fingersticks alongside the sensor for two weeks to sanity-check it. Worth doing once.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Sensor accuracy varies across wear, and readings on the first day are the least reliable. Calibration practice and compression artefacts explain many alarming single values.
Incretin-based agents stimulate insulin secretion in a glucose-dependent manner, which is why hypoglycaemia risk with them alone is low. Risk rises with agents that act independently of glycaemia.
Panicked over a first-day sensor reading and rebuilt my week around it. It was the sensor.
Panicked over a first-day sensor reading and rebuilt my week around it.
Adding the obvious one — bring the export, not the single number, to whoever manages this.
Have you taken this to whoever manages your diabetes?
Yes — the person managing your diabetes is the one to talk to, and this board is explicit about that.
How long between the two A1c measurements?
metformin and an incretin agonist are not in competition
Is that a first-day sensor reading?
Cosigning that postprandial excursions improve first and the fasting number is the laggard.
variability matters as much as the mean
a1c can be affected by things that have nothing to do with glucose
Correction: that trial is the diabetes programme and the figure you quoted is its glycaemic endpoint, not a weight result.