Resumen de Vista Measurement of Hemoglobin A^sub 1c^: A new twist on the path to harmony
By contrast, the concentration of HbAlc in the blood reflects the average glucose over the preceding 8-12 weeks. [...]HbAic provides an additional criterion for assessing glucose control that is free of the wide diurnal fluctuations that occur with blood glucose. The glucose conversion is based on the molecular mass of glucose (C6H1206), which is 180.16 g/mol. [...]to change glucose from mg/ dL to mmol/L, one divides by 18.016 (usually rounded off to 18), and values are multiplied by 18 to switch from mmol/L to mg/dL.
