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<blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2682814" data-attributes="member: 372717"><p>Hi [USER=586009]@Flo-63[/USER] and welcome to the forums.</p><p></p><p>I suspect you are confused by the fact that diabetes is usually diagnosed via hba1c and there are two different measuring symptoms for hba1c. It can be measured in mmol/mol or % . It is linked to your average blood sugar over the last 3 months because it measures the sugar that has attached to your red blood cells (which live about 3 months).</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-hba1c.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p>So you are diabetic if you have an Hba1c greater than or equal to 6.5% or 48mmol/mol . Then if you do an ordinary blood test with a glucometer your <strong>blood sugar</strong> is measured in mmol/L and (for a non diabetic) is normally between 4mmol/L and 8mmol/L (s0metimes a bit lower or higher).</p><p> <a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_care/blood-sugar-level-ranges.html" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_care/blood-sugar-level-ranges.html</a></p><p></p><p>Are you able to look at your medical records online? My <em>guess </em>is that the 6.6 is 6.6% and the 59 is 59mmol/mol , but a check of the units used for the measurements would confirm that.</p><p></p><p>Here is a converter</p><p> <a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-units-converter.html" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-units-converter.html</a></p><p></p><p>6.6% is the same as 49mmol/mol and is equivalent to an average blood sugar of 7.9mmol/L </p><p>59mmol/mol is equivalent to 7.5% and is equivalent to an average blood sugar of 9.4mmol/L</p><p></p><p>I hope this helps, and I haven't just managed to confuse you more.</p><p></p><p>Once more, welcome.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllieM, post: 2682814, member: 372717"] Hi [USER=586009]@Flo-63[/USER] and welcome to the forums. I suspect you are confused by the fact that diabetes is usually diagnosed via hba1c and there are two different measuring symptoms for hba1c. It can be measured in mmol/mol or % . It is linked to your average blood sugar over the last 3 months because it measures the sugar that has attached to your red blood cells (which live about 3 months). [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-hba1c.html[/URL] So you are diabetic if you have an Hba1c greater than or equal to 6.5% or 48mmol/mol . Then if you do an ordinary blood test with a glucometer your [B]blood sugar[/B] is measured in mmol/L and (for a non diabetic) is normally between 4mmol/L and 8mmol/L (s0metimes a bit lower or higher). [URL]https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_care/blood-sugar-level-ranges.html[/URL] Are you able to look at your medical records online? My [I]guess [/I]is that the 6.6 is 6.6% and the 59 is 59mmol/mol , but a check of the units used for the measurements would confirm that. Here is a converter [URL]https://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-units-converter.html[/URL] 6.6% is the same as 49mmol/mol and is equivalent to an average blood sugar of 7.9mmol/L 59mmol/mol is equivalent to 7.5% and is equivalent to an average blood sugar of 9.4mmol/L I hope this helps, and I haven't just managed to confuse you more. Once more, welcome. [/QUOTE]
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