“Who cares?”, says Nortin Hadler. I’m sure a few endocrinologists would take issue with that:
I have practiced medicine for 40 years. I have never prescribed a pill to lower blood sugar. I still see no reason to do so. If I am disadvantaging my patients, it’s to a trivial degree at most. However, I know I am sparing them known and unknown hazards.
And I won’t let you measure my blood sugar or the measure of its persistent elevation, the hemoglobin A1c. I don’t care, and I won’t care till there is compelling science that something meaningful can be done if it is elevated.
