I have a blood disorder commonly known as MGUS - both my red and white blood cell counts are low. Does this affect the accuracy of the A1C test results?
4/17/09 2:16pm
Yes. The A1c may look lower than it actualy is. This can be due to increased RBC turnover, or structure of heboglobin itself.
Clinical Pharmacist
4/ 6/09 9:45pm
It is possible according to the following science:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15345893
http://professional.diabetes.org/Abstracts_Display.aspx?TYP=1&CID=47723
http://clinical.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/reprint/22/3/141
Page 7 of 9, (143 in the article) above.
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