No!
The consensus statement has just been emailed to me and I am making this available to participants. This says that we will all have to triple report - (1) Correct IFCC Hba1c in the new units, (2) a derived 'DCCT' number using the NGSP/IFCC master equation and (3) 'APG equivalent' derived from the yet to be completed international study as long as this fulfils certain a priori conditions.
Readers of this discussion list will know my views on this- I won't rehearse them!
regards to all
J
Dr Jonathan Middle
Deputy Director, UK NEQAS Birmingham
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From: Clinical biochemistry discussion list on behalf of PETER HUDSON
Sent: Thu 12/07/2007 09:21
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Subject: Goodbye A1c?
Dear all
This article popped up on Medscape yesterday:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/559262?src=mp . It is the proposal
to report HbA1c as an equivalent Mean Blood Glucose. One or two list
members will be aware that I have been grumbling about this for a while.
Does the profession really need yet another derived parameter with a
wide prediction interval?
Peter
Dr. Peter R. Hudson
Principal Biochemist
Maelor Hospital, Wrexham
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