I'm not certain what distresses me more about that article: The misrepresentation of HgA1c as a "new" test, the misrepresentation as a "simple" test, or the fact that this article will be singlehandedly responsible for consigning HgA1c to the same fate as CEA or PSA.
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Dr. Steven Angel, MD, FRCPC
General Pathologist
Royal University Hospital
Saskatoon, SK
S7N 0W8
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>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:11:44 -0000
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>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 pat!
ient 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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