# Is there a risk to slightly elevated glucose with normal A1c? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 21, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-risk-to-slightly-elevated-glucose-with-normal-a1c/1017292 "2025-04-21T04:58:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 56
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-risk-to-slightly-elevated-glucose-with-normal-a1c/1017292/56 "2025-04-26T00:06:56Z")
Looking forward to it! Meanwhile relevant to the current discussion about the wider use of CGMs by those without diabetes or even prediabetes and what the data obtained means … is this past thread: > [@How important is glucose flattening?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-important-is-glucose-flattening/988660): > > I’ve been hearing a lot about glucose flattening from friends. It’s basically using hacks to keep your blood glucose spike as low as possible after you eat a meal. The purported benefits are fewer cravings and less hunger, less inflammation, healthier heart and brain, and reduced risk of AD, cancer, and fatty liver disease. These hacks include eating only savory breakfasts, consuming your meals in a particular order, eating whole fruit not juiced or dried, “clothing” your carbs with protein, fa… It is a fun reread I think. Still the case that we don’t really have a good set of how daily glucose curves are distributed across the population, what “normal” is, let alone how the curve shapes, peaks and valley heights and depths, correlate with outcomes longer term, and then if whatever the correlations _may be_ are causative or each caused by some other factor, like dysfunctional inflammation or excessive unremitting stress. Or other. Or if interventions that result in flatter curves lower _any_ future risks. I said it in that thread and I will repeat here: it may turn out at some future date that CGMs will give meaningful actionable information for those without diabetes. But the data to do that has not been collected or analyzed yet. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-risk-to-slightly-elevated-glucose-with-normal-a1c/1017292)._