Relation between sex, age and races in the measurement level of HbA1c among diabetic patients in Hospital Pakar Sultanah Fatimah / Mohamad Faiz Md. Musa

The aim of the present study was to find the factors that cause different measurement in HbA1c level among diabetic patients in Hospital Pakar Sultanah Aminah. HbA1c is a test to measure the level of glycohaemoglobin in body. HbA1c has been a ‘gold standard’ in diagnosing diabetes patients and it also has been used in monitoring an effectiveness of treatment on diabetic patients. Besides that, HbA1c can measure level of blood glucose from previous 3 month. Data from January 2014 until March 2014 were collected and analysed into ages, genders, races and medical condition or disease. Then, by using documentation audit from excel, comparisons between all the data were made by divide each of the factor into three level of HbA1c which normal (<6.0%), pre-diabetes (<7.0%) and diabetes (>8.0%). There have significant differences between each factor. From this study, a significant difference can be finding in HbA1c level between ages, races, gender and medical condition of the diabetic patients. Those factors may cause measurement of HbA1c level become unreliable. So, all this factors should be looking first before measurement of HbA1c level is done on patients.