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The American Diabetes Association sets a target A1C of less than 7 percent for most nonpregnant adults — meeting this benchmark substantially slows, and may completely prevent, the development of diabetes complications.—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 27 Feb. 2026 The World Health Organization defines 13 grams of hemoglobin per deciliter as normal for men, and 12 for nonpregnant women (though some hematologists argue that those thresholds are too low).—Paula Span, Miami Herald, 18 July 2025 Pregnant women who contracted COVID-19 were more likely to become severely ill and to be hospitalized than nonpregnant women of the same age and demographics, especially early in the COVID pandemic.—Kff Health News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2025 In a recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey dataset, in the fifth to 95th weight percentiles, nonpregnant females aged 20 and older weighed between 110 and 263 pounds, and males in the same age range weighed between 136 and 287 pounds.—Agustín Fuentes, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nonpregnant