Patient Assessment and MonitoringContextual ApplicationanemiafructosamineHbA1c
Can you diagnose diabetes on an HbA1c blood test?
Sister Parminder Rihal, Diabetes Specialist Nurse explains that HbA1c can be used as a test to diagnose Diabetes. But, importantly she explains that is a person is Anaemic (has low Haemoglobin level in the blood) then the HbA1C test can mistakenly not pick up that a person is actually Diabetic. In that case she would recommend a different test to use.
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Yeah, we can use it, but HbA1c is a diagnostic predictor, but if the patient, if the patient does suffer with anemia, so that can falsely give us low HbA1c. So then there are more tasks we need to do, it's called fructosamine, so then we have to really, and also rely on their finger pricking, that if they are high you need to treat it.
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