HBA1C
is it a case of Stockhausen Syndrome?. A psychological state in which the
victims of overly complex music and/or art develop an irrational relationship
with the work. This solidarity can sometimes lead to absolute defense of the
work, outside of pragmatic and realistic views. If the defender says that it is
just their opinion, this is not a sufferer. If the defender claims that you are
wrong, they are right and anybody who disagrees with them is out to get them,
then this is probably a sufferer.
BW John
In my opinion, digging in or grumbling about this
will be counterproductive. Pass the information along, and let the free
market decide - I've little doubt that in due course, our clinical colleagues
will come to recognize this for the useless piece of trivia that it
is.
--- Dr. Steven Angel, MD, FRCPC
General Pathologist Royal University Hospital
Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W8
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:17:25 +0100
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> As this is just a
question of which fiddle factor to apply, we plan to
> offer what our
clinicians want.
>
> When we went from Gly Hb to DCCT-aligned we
gave them both values for 12
> months and then dropped GlyHb - we will
wait until they tell us what to
> do.
>
>
>
TIM
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> No!
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> 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
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> Readers of this discussion list will know my
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> rehearse them!
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> Dear all
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> 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
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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?
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> Peter
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