A1C:

A test that measures a person's average blood glucose level over the past 2 to 3 months. Hemoglobin (hee-mo-glo-bin) is the part of a red blood cell that carries oxygen to the cells and sometimes joins with the glucose in the bloodstream. Also called hemoglobin a1c or glycosylated (gly-koh-sih-lay-ted) hemoglobin, the test shows the amount of glucose that sticks to the red blood cell, which is proportional to the amount of glucose in the blood.

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