Women with PCOS are at greatly increased risk of diabetes. But minorities are significantly less likely than whites to receive a commonly used test to monitor control of blood glucose, according to Washington State University researchers.
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Black and Hispanic patients diagnosed with diabetes are two to three times less likely than white patients to receive the A1C test during physician office visits, says the study.
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The A1C test is regarded as a “monitoring cornerstone,” providing a retrospective snapshot of a patient’s blood-glucose level.
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Hispanics and blacks are more than twice as likely to develop diabetes and suffer the consequences of insufficient monitoring, say the WSU researchers.
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Earlier this year, the American Diabetes Association announced guidelines encouraging use of the A1C test in both the monitoring and diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease. Minorities need to know about the test and ask their doctors for it as part of their diabetes treatment.
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