The numbers (was Jeff)
Hello Tina,
<<Isn’t a A1c over 7 dangerous?
Being alive is dangerous stuff…. : z
But to answer your question directly, there is strong growing evidence that “higher” numbers indicate long term damage. I would go so far to say there is consensus in the medical community on that one theory, (and “they” cannot agree on much)!
What they have no evidence of as yet (to my knowledge anyway), when does XYZ number become directly causal of that “future problem”? Let me ask this another way….
How long do we have have to “be there” (XYZ) in order to guarantee some future problem? Is it three months continuously and we are “toast” or does it have to be 8 years day after day continuously in order to ~open that door~? Or if you, I go there once in a while over say 15 years, every once in a while… does that guarantee the problems? Or does it need to be daily, habitually over a single continuous timeframe?
You’d never get an argument out of me that 10, 12, 15 was something you have to attack and do everything possible to bring down. What I am asking is when does <shrug
Do we go insane, trying to cross below the “7.0″ magic threshold? Can we be better served, softening the lines just a tad? At what point does ~zealotry~ no longer make us vigilant and simply make us obsessive, crazy (insane hyper-vigilant, “insano” pin-cushions)?
Respectfully asked aloud…
Jeff
(P.S. Nice numbers btw, like 6.5… one single caveat see ~last paragraph~ above)