If that is the case, throw away the leftover candy, cut out the extra breads and sweets, and test again in June. Halloween, Thanksgiving, you get my drift. Not exactly most people’s healthiest time of year. If you had your test done in January, this result will reflect the months of October, November and December. If your levels have come back higher than you and your physician want them to be, the first thing to do is look at your lifestyle over the past three months or so. Yes, you can lower this number just by changing up your diet a little. By making dietary changes at this point, many people can avoid developing Type 2 Diabetes and the health complications that go along with it. The diabetes epidemic in this country has changed those views, and now many physicians want to see their patients with H-A1c levels under 5.6. So, a few years ago any number under 6 was fantastic, and a level under 7 was nothing to worry about. And many doctors are now looking at it much more closely, moving more and more people into the pre-diabetic or “pre-pre-diabetic” range if it gets a little high. It is not altered by what you ate for breakfast the day of the test, or what you are the day before. The Hemoglobin A1c test, or H-A1c, measures the average amount of glucose in your blood over the past 3-4 months. It seems everywhere I hear people talking about their Hemoglobin A1c tests, concerned about being pre-diabetic, and not really sure what it all means.
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