According to the BBC news website this is a test called HgA1c
(sic)!
see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1755000/1755037.st
m
Jonathan
On 16 Jan 2002, at 9:20, Frost, Stephen wrote:
>
> In yesterdays Independent newspaper there is a short article about the
> need for early diagnosis in diabetes. (I tried to send e-mail this
> yesterday but it bounced for some reason.) This states there is a "new
> screening technique, developed at Duke University medical centre in
> North Carolina, (which) can be administered on the spot and does not
> require the patient to be fasted for several hours".
>
> Unfortunately there are no further details. Out of interest can
> anyone, perhaps from our American friends, enlighten me as to what the
> test referred
>
> to actually is?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dr Steve Frost
> The Princess Royal Hospital
> West Sussex
>
>
>
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