7 Overlooked Reasons Why Your A1C May Be Inaccurate

The A1C blood test provides information about average blood glucose levels, also called blood sugar, over the past three months. The test is sometimes referred to as the hemoglobin A1c, HbA1c, or glycohemoglobin test. The test result is reported as a percentage. The higher the percentage, the higher a person's average blood glucose levels, which can cause complications in people with diabetes. A normal A1C level is below 5.7 percent. The A1C test may be used as a diagnostic tool to see how well diabetes is being measured, but some factors may render the test not as accurate as would be expected. In this video I review 7 of those factors which may cause the A1C to be either falsely high or falsely low.