<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cc3c4776-372f-4d11-87bd-e501d5f2ce49/C027201E-6842-4CAC-ADAC-27414A847F8A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.npci.org.uk/blog/?p=356" href="http://www.npci.org.uk/blog/?p=356" style="font-size: 11px;">www.npci.org.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npci.org.uk/blog/?p=356"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: HbA1c to be reported in different units from this month" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.npci.org.uk/blog/?p=356">HbA1c to be reported in different units from this month</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npci.org.uk/blog/?p=356"><P>10th June 2009</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npci.org.uk/blog/?p=356"><STRONG>From 1st June 2009, glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) in all people with diabetes will be measured in millimoles per mol as well as by percentage, the Department of Health have <A href="http://nds.coi.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?ReleaseID=402333&NewsAreaID=2&NavigatedFromDepartment=False">announced</A>. Measurements will be reported in both ways until 31 May 2011 when people with diabetes will receive their HbA1c measurement only in millimoles per mol.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npci.org.uk/blog/?p=356"><P><STRONG>What is the background to this?</STRONG> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Treatment__your_health/Monitoring/Blood_glucose/Glycated_haemoglobin_HbA1c_and_fructosamine/">Glycated haemoglobin</A> is the recommended method of measuring long term control of blood glucose in people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The UK is responding to the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) call for all countries to adopt the same measurement to make it easier to compare HbA1c results between laboratories throughout the UK and worldwide. The <A target="_blank" href="http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/News_Landing_Page/Change-in-measurement-of-HbA1c/">Diabetes UK website</A> has useful information about the change, including an <A target="_blank" href="http://www.diabetes.org.uk/upload/swf/HbA1c_calculator.swf">online converter</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C027201E-6842-4CAC-ADAC-27414A847F8A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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