eAG (estimated Average Glucose) = Glucose Standards War
For at least three consecutive years now at the annual ADA Conference, we keep hearing about a rumored switchover from the A1c as the gold standard average glucose measurement. Instead, we’ll get something new and supposedly easier to understand: a new measure that more closely reflects the mg/dL (and international mmol/l) numbers we all get on our home glucose meters. This new test is now dubbed the eAG (estimated average glucose).
One of the big…