Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 90, Issue 2 , Pages 228-230 , November 2010

2010 Consensus statement on the worldwide standardization of the hemoglobin A1c measurement

  • Ragnar Hanas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Uddevalla Hospital, S-451 80 Uddevalla, Sweden
    • On behalf of the International HbA1c Consensus Committee.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 522 92000; fax: +46 522 93149.
    • ,
  • Garry John

      Affiliations

    • Department of Laboratory Medicine, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Norwich, Norfolk, UK
    • On behalf of the International HbA1c Consensus Committee.

Received 17 May 2010 ,Accepted 17 May 2010.

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☆ This article is being simultaneously published in 2010 in Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Diabetes Care, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, Diabetologia, Diabetic Medicine and Pediatric Diabetes. Copyright 2010 by The American Diabetes Association (ADA), the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) and the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD). Copying with attribution allowed for any non-commercial use of the work.

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doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2010.05.011

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 90, Issue 2 , Pages 228-230 , November 2010

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