{"id":7915,"date":"2021-04-15T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T17:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/?p=7915"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T17:06:42","slug":"safety-effectiveness-of-a1c-testing-kits-for-home-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/safety-effectiveness-of-a1c-testing-kits-for-home-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety, effectiveness of A1C testing kits for home-use"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-839091 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-818739 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-296105 kc_text_block\">\n<p>A study in the journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FnrapDjuQiAsNwDpwfEaieEfCHHnW&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C2b44b01054f8451b7d1e08d9002a34c3%7Ce95f1b23abaf45ee821db7ab251ab3bf%7C0%7C0%7C637541004426083132%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=G4vmCs3XwhzveyDwH8ECzM9JgSG%2FnCFesgQ4auIHWGk%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Diabetes Technology &amp; Therapeutics<\/a>\u00a0found that a measurement of A1C with capillary blood collection kits for home-use yielded similar accuracy as a measurement with venous blood draw. The researchers say the findings could be beneficial for those who require home A1C testing kits, especially for children for whom a venous blood draw can be painful and challenging.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Full Story:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fr.smartbrief.com%2Fresp%2FnrapDjuQiAsNwDpkfEaieEfCzYHT%3Fformat%3Dmultipart&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C2b44b01054f8451b7d1e08d9002a34c3%7Ce95f1b23abaf45ee821db7ab251ab3bf%7C0%7C0%7C637541004426083132%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=NDejX%2B7jwodwBFjWXOUBgCoQKhmTWR2%2BSoB%2BVzKHmtM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Healio (free registration)\/Endocrine Today<\/a>\u00a0(4\/14)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-diabetes-related-news","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7919,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions\/7919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}