A1C professional Use

All health care practitioners can benefit from knowing their patients A1C readings.
This includes GPs, CDEs, NPs, naturopaths, PAs, dieticians and nutritionists.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommends A1C testing to determine a patient’s average blood glucose control. For patients whose therapy has changed or who are not meeting glycemic goals, the A1C test should be performed quarterly. The A1C test should be performed at least two times a year in patients who are meeting treatment goals and who have stable glycemic control.

The A1C Now test takes about 1 minute to perform with results displayed in 5 minutes and can be done in the exam room. When patients are provided with immediate A1C results it encourages them to engage in immediate face-to-face counseling.

When a patient’s A1C is high, immediate changes can be outlined in their diet, exercise and possibly medications. This may help reduce their A1C which could help reduce their risks of the onset or the progression of diabetic retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy.

Immediate, face-to-face counseling about A1C results may help motivate patients to follow through with physician recommendations.
Patients who get immediate feedback may lower their A1C by up to 1%. [2],[3]
Lowering A1C levels reduces the risks of long term complications.
For every 1% reduction in A1C, the risk of developing eye, kidney and nerve disease is reduced by 40%.[4]

A1C as it relates to Glucose Levels

Real-time results. Better outcomes.

The ADA recommends that healthcare professionals use A1C point-of-care testing for timely decisions on therapy changes [2]
Giving diabetes patients on-the- spot feedback on their A1C number may result in a 1% point reduction in their A1C [3]
A 1% point reduction lowers the risk of serious complications by 40% [1]

1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National diabetes fact sheet: general information and national estimates on diabetes in the United States, 2002. Atlanta, GA:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2003.
2 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes - 2008. Diabetes Care, Volume 31, Supplement 1, January 2008.
3 Daniels, E. et al, Point of Care Testing to Improve Glycemic Control.Intl J or Health Care Quality Assurance 2008; 21 (3): pp. 325-335.
4 Data on file; Evaluation of the A1CNow SELFCHECK with lay-users. August 2008.
* Study results with healthcare professionals showed that the accuracy of A1CNow+ with fingerstick samples was, on average, 99%. This means that, on average, a true 7.0% A1C could read approximately 6.9%A1C. An individual A1CNow+ result may differ by as much as -1.0% A1C to +0.8% A1C from the true result. This represents the 95% confidence limits of a Bland-Altman plot.