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The World Health Organization accepts glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) as a measure of diagnosing diabetes as it provides significantly more information on the glycemic behavior from a single blood sample than the fasting blood sugar reading. The molar absorption coefficient of HbA1c is needed to quantify the amount of HbA1c present in a blood sample. In this study, we measured the molar absorption coefficient of HbA1c in the range of 450 nm to 700 nm using optical methods experimentally. We observed that the characteristic peaks of the molar absorption coefficient of HbA1c (at 545 nm and 579 nm for level 1, at 544 nm and 577 nm for level 2) are in close agreement with those reported in previous studies. The molar absorption coefficient values were also found to be close to those of earlier reports. 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