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Preferred term

Glycated Hemoglobin  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Glycated Hemoglobins
  • Glycohemoglobin
  • Glycohemoglobins
  • Glycosylated Hemoglobin
  • Hemoglobin, Glycosylated
  • Hemoglobins, Glycated

Note

  • urine: coordinate with HEMOGLOBINURIA

Scope note

  • Products of non-enzymatic reactions between GLUCOSE and HEMOGLOBIN (occurring as a minor fraction of the hemoglobin of ERYTHROCYTES.) It generally refers to glycated HEMOGLOBIN A. Hemoglobin A1c (Hb A1c) is hemoglobin A with GLYCATION on a terminal VALINE of the beta chain. Glycated hemoglobin A is used as an index of the average blood sugar level over a lifetime of erythrocytes.

History note

  • 2018 (1982)

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • glycohaemoglobinum
  • glykohemoglobiini
  • glykohemoglobiini A
  • glykoitunut hemoglobiini
  • glykoitunut hemoglobiini A
  • glykosyloitunut hemoglobiini A
  • HbA1c
  • hemoglobiini A1c
  • sokerihemoglobiini
  • Glykerat hemoglobin A

    Swedish

  • Glykerat hemoglobin A1a-2
  • Glykerat hemoglobin A1c
  • Glykosylerat A1b hemoglobin
  • Glykosylerat hemoglobin
  • Glykosylerat hemoglobin A
  • Glykosylerat hemoglobin A1a-1
  • HbA1
  • HbA1c

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006442

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