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SUBMITTER: Prahalad P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7001422 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prahalad Priya P Yang Jaden J Scheinker David D Desai Manisha M Hood Korey K Maahs David M DM
Diabetes technology & therapeutics 20190610 8
Despite advances in diabetes technology and treatment, a majority of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) fail to meet hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) targets. Among high-income nations, the United States has one of the highest mean HbA1c values. We tracked the HbA1c values of 261 patients diagnosed with T1D in our practice over a 2.5-year period to identify inflection points in the HbA1c trajectory. The HbA1c declined until 5 months postdiagnosis. There was a rise in the HbA1c between the ...[more]