Endocrine Abstracts

We report a 9-year-old Caucasian boy with type 1 diabetes mellitus and elevated blood glucose measurements, which did not correlate with apparent normal range HbA1c values. Safeguarding concerns due to raised blood glucose levels were raised at school, but were not pursued due to normal range HbA1c. Haemoglobinopathy screen showed hereditary persistence of foetal haemoglobin (HPFH) giving the falsely reassuring HbA1c levels. Subsequent fructosamine measurement confirmed the tr...