{"id":182030,"date":"2010-01-14T22:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47637-how-accurate-a1c-test.html"},"modified":"2010-01-14T22:16:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:16:38","slug":"how-accurate-are-a1c-test-and-what-do-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/182030","title":{"rendered":"How accurate are A1C test and what do they"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>determine? First 3 months after I was first D&#8217;xd I was just learning about diabetes (through this Forum mostly) and incorporating moderate exercise &#8211; and some form of low carbing.  <\/p>\n<p>My 1st A1C results came back as 5.6%.  I was happy with that and so thought to better this percentage I went all out with the exercise the following three months except for about 3 weeks between the Xmas and after the New years &#8211; where I did&#8217;nt exercise at all and probably ate too much of the &quot;bad&quot; stuff like chocolates etc.  Had my second A1C in Jan &#8217;10 which came in at 5.9%  <\/p>\n<p>What I want to know is :  what do I change to better this number? reduce the exercise and not go so extreme like the first 3 months after d&#8217;xd? since d&#8217;xd I have dropped my weight my 10kgs and body fat content by 7%.  I would have thought this would have accounted for a much better A1c result.  <\/p>\n<p>My meter readings have always been pretty good &#8211; no extreme highs or lows and fasting level have usually hoovered around the 5.00 to 5.3 mark (except for this morning where I ate late and meal was carb loaded)!<\/p>\n<p>Any advice would be most appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks all.<br \/>\nDonna.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>determine? First 3 months after I was first D&#8217;xd I was just learning about diabetes (through this Forum mostly) and incorporating moderate exercise &#8211; and some form of low carbing. My 1st A1C results came back as 5.6%. I was happy with that and so thought to better this percentage I went all out with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}