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<blockquote data-quote="Paul59" data-source="post: 750577" data-attributes="member: 128625"><p>From the diabetic uk site, it may help explain why there is a diffo between your readings & the hbA1c. </p><p></p><p></p><p>How does HbA1c differ from a blood glucose level?</p><p></p><p>HbA1c provides a longer-term trend, similar to an average, of how high your blood sugar levels have been over a period of time.</p><p></p><p></p><p>An HbA1c reading can be taken from blood from a finger but is often taken from a blood sample that is taken from your arm.</p><p></p><p>Blood glucose level is the concentration of glucose in your blood at a single point in time, i.e. the very moment of the test.</p><p></p><p>This is measured using a fasting plasma glucose test, which can be carried out using blood taken from a finger or can be taken from a blood sample from the arm.</p><p></p><p>However, fasting glucose tests provide an indication of your current glucose levels only, whereas the HbA1c test serves as an overall marker of what your average levels are over a period of 2-3 months</p><p></p><p>My personal estimated is 38 but my last hbA1c came back as 44. 6 points above my personal estimated.</p><p></p><p>We could never test enough to be able to get the same reading as the hbA1c, ours is only ever a guide line to help us see how we are doing but with the knowledge in the back of our mind that the true hbA1c will be higher, thus the closer our estimated is to the 48 target the more likely the true hbA1c will be over. well that's how I see it.</p><p>Sorry to go off thread but thought it may be of interest to some.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paul59, post: 750577, member: 128625"] From the diabetic uk site, it may help explain why there is a diffo between your readings & the hbA1c. How does HbA1c differ from a blood glucose level? HbA1c provides a longer-term trend, similar to an average, of how high your blood sugar levels have been over a period of time. An HbA1c reading can be taken from blood from a finger but is often taken from a blood sample that is taken from your arm. Blood glucose level is the concentration of glucose in your blood at a single point in time, i.e. the very moment of the test. This is measured using a fasting plasma glucose test, which can be carried out using blood taken from a finger or can be taken from a blood sample from the arm. However, fasting glucose tests provide an indication of your current glucose levels only, whereas the HbA1c test serves as an overall marker of what your average levels are over a period of 2-3 months My personal estimated is 38 but my last hbA1c came back as 44. 6 points above my personal estimated. We could never test enough to be able to get the same reading as the hbA1c, ours is only ever a guide line to help us see how we are doing but with the knowledge in the back of our mind that the true hbA1c will be higher, thus the closer our estimated is to the 48 target the more likely the true hbA1c will be over. well that's how I see it. Sorry to go off thread but thought it may be of interest to some. [/QUOTE]
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