Ethnic Differences Discoverd in HbA1c Test

Wed, 02 Jun 2010
A study undertaken by the Children's Hospital of New Orleans has discovered that black children have statistically significantly higher HbA1c scores than their white counterparts.

Should these higher HbA1c levels uncovered in black children be a factor of ethnicity, as opposed to elevated levels of blood glucose .

These results could have a possibly harmful effect with regard to diabetes treatment based on glycated haemoglobin or HbA1c. The researchers admit that ethnic disparity has already been proven in past studies of adults.

The six year study was led by Dr. Stuart A. Chalew, a paediatrics professor at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.

The study monitored 276 children who were on average 12.5 years old and who had had Type 1 diabetes for approximately five years.

The researchers reviewed the results of the HbA1c screening test which indicates of blood glucose levels in the last few months.

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