The A1C is certainly the gold standard to see how well we are controlling our diabetes. But even gold isn't good enough for us. The A1C doesn't show our glycemic variability. For those of us who have our blood glucose levels under reasonably good.

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More and more research pinpoints inflammation as a root cause of type 2 diabetes. Being overweight makes it harder for us to control our diabetes, but that can't be what causes it. Since a lot more people are overweight or obese than have diabetes,...

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Today Bayer Diabetes Care launched the A1CNow SELFCHECK that we can use to check our A1C level at home. Finally.Many of us have been waiting for years. In September 2006 I wrote here that we would have it "soon." Then, a year ago at last...

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Until now our doctors have lacked an effective way to predict who is at the greatest risk of neuropathy. Usually we find out too late --  when irreversible nerve damage has already occurred. Diabetic neuropathy is the most common microvascular...

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All over the world people with diabetes are slacking off how well they control their diabetes. Their A1C levels are climbing to 7.0 percent or more, apparently blessed by scientific research. Researchers designed the Action to Control Cardiovascular...

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