A1C Goal

Normal non diabetic person’s glycated hemoglobin percentage will be about 5%. So for diabetics a range of less than 7% is a good A1C goal.

The A1C range depends upon how well they maintain their blood glucose level, if maintained well it will be near normal range around 5%, if not the value will be vary up to as high as 25% if diabetes is badly out of control for a long time.

For most people with diabetes, the A1C goal of less than 7 is a good choice. If your A1C is higher than 7 means that you have a greater chance of diabetes complications. Strive to lower your A1C by any amount can improve your chances of staying healthy.

Once diagnosed as diabetes then it is good to have at least two A1C test per year. If you are very health concern then it is best to have A1C test for every 3 months and strive to maintain the value near normal (around 5%). If maintain the A1C value near normal then you can avoid most of the diabetes complications.

Even if the results are not up to your expectation then you can discuss with your health care team to design or modify your diabetes treatment to achieve your goal.

Also the ordinary blood glucose test will provide only current blood glucose level, if one gets treatment or modify treatment based on this test results. Then there is more chance to end up with a false treatment, may be the blood has high or low glucose level at that instant.

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