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Thread: A1c How do hypo's bring them down?
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Old 05-01-2008, 12:42 PM
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does being hypo somehow remove the sugar from some of the blood cells?
The glucose and the hemoglobin protein that it binds with reach a equilibrium point determined by the glucose level of the blood; that is the basis for the test. So, yes, glucose will unbind from the protein when ambient blood glucose levels are low enough.
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