Time in range: a new way for people with diabetes to monitor

[lakers]

Time in range: a new way for people with diabetes to monitor blood sugar
www.statnews.com/2019/10/08/time-in-range-new-metric-diabetes-blood-sugar/

[mango]

“Two of my patients show one of the limitations of finger sticks and HbA1c. Each had an HbA1c of 6.3%, equivalent to an average glucose of 129 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL), which is pretty good. During that three-month period, patient A had finger sticks that were generally in a healthy range close to 150 mg/dL, while patient B’s finger sticks ranged from 218 mg/dL (very high) to 40 mg/dL, which is low enough to cause seizures and necessitated several visits to the emergency department. Although the HbA1c reading indicated that both patients were optimally controlling their diabetes, in reality patient B wasn’t.”

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As said many times before, A1c does not assess glucose homeostasis. TIR does.

Coincidence this is from STAT news?

[mnholdem]

Isn’t STAT the new home of Adam Feuerstein? Thank goodness they have more than one staff writer!