General Information

Diabetes Mellitus has become a worldwide epidemic, affecting 400 million people. Effective and efficient monitoring of diabetic control and diagnosis requires a good marker for estimation of the average blood glucose over a longer period. HbA1c meets this requirement for such a reliable compass to guide therapy.

For optimal clinical use (e.g. uniform clinical guidelines, uniform reference values, comparison of scientific studies) equivalence of results is desirable: results of any laboratory anywhere in the world and irrespective the routine method used, should be the same. This requires standardization. The IFCC Reference Measurement Procedure for HbA1_c is the analytical anchor for the worldwide standardization of all routine HbA1_c assays.