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What should i do to make a diabetes test most accurate?
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HGA1C: Is a 3 month average of you blood sugars a gives a n accurate average. It does not obviously account for highs and lows because these would balance out. A glycomark test added to the hga1c will tell you over the last 2 weeks any way how stable your sugars have been or how much they were swinging
Answered 7/27/2013
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