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Australian Doctor, April, 2007
By Rebecca Jenkins
MAJOR changes are expected in the way HbA1c is reported, in line with standardised testing expected later this year.
Writing in the Internal Medicine Journal (April), Australian experts said an international collaboration was examining this issue.
One of the article's authors, Associate Professor Peter Colman, director of diabetes and endocrinology at Royal Melbourne Hospital, said while efforts to develop a standardised and reproducible HbA1c assay had been successful, there were problems to overcome concerning different assays returning disparate test ...
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