C. Ronald Kahn, M.D. President and Director, Joslin Diabetes Center What is the A1c blood test? The hemoglobin A1C test is a measure of what we call long term glucose control. The way this works ...

No, not that number, your A1C. Your A1C measures the amount of sugar in your red blood cells and gives an average of your blood sugar over a three-month period. Why is that important? After all ...

Susan Yochum, the Community Health Nurse at the Knox County Health Department, explained that diabetes ... To schedule an ...

studies show an increased risk of diabetic embryopathy, especially anencephaly, microcepha­ly, congenital heart disease, and caudal regression di­rectly proportional to ele­vations in A1C ...