{"id":762448,"date":"2026-09-07T02:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762448\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T02:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:34:14","slug":"hba1c-is-not-the-whole-story-what-doctors-check-to-know-if-your-diabetes-is-truly-under-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762448\/","title":{"rendered":"HbA1c is not the whole story: What doctors check to know if your diabetes is truly under control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; overflow: visible; font-family: inherit; color: inherit; display: block;\">The treatment itself is another part of the conversation. Dr Ameya Joshi, MD &#8211; General Medicine, MBBS, DM \u2013 Endocrinology, Institute of Diabetes Endocrinology and Nutrition, Endocrine and Diabetes Clinic, Borivali West, Mumbai, said, \u201cIndia&#8217;s diabetes burden requires us to look beyond blood sugar control alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cGLP-1 receptor agonists have transformed the management of type 2 diabetes by addressing multiple aspects of the disease, including weight management and cardiovascular and kidney risk reduction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Vaishali Chetan Deshmukh, MD, DNB (Med-gold medalist), DM (Endocrinology), Assistant Professor of Endocrinology, Sassoon General Hospital, Pune, and Consultant and Head of Endocrinology Department, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Research Centre, Deshmukh Clinic and Research Centre, Pune, said, \u201cFor complex GLP-1 therapies, quality is not just about the molecule itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She explained that physicians also consider the science, manufacturing process and clinical evidence behind a treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, a diabetes review is not a report-card exercise. HbA1c is one important piece, but doctors also want to know what glucose is doing day to day and whether the heart, kidneys, eyes and nerves are being protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The treatment itself is another part of the conversation. Dr Ameya Joshi, MD &#8211; General Medicine, MBBS, DM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[251771,59,40096,251772,251774,102,251773,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-diabetes-treatment-options","tag-gb","tag-hba1c","tag-hba1c-signs","tag-hba1c-symptoms","tag-health","tag-signs-of-hba1c","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}