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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted Account" data-source="post: 1512504"><p>Hb1AC is an average over the last three months. </p><p>Someone without diabetes is unlikely to experience much fluctuation in BG as the body self-regulates to maintain a BG of around 5.5mmol/l. I am not sure what this is equivalent to in terms of Hb1AC.</p><p>Someone with diabetes manages the fluctuation without their body's help. For example, with type 1, I manage my BG my attempting to match my insulin needs with what I eat, how stressed I am and how much exercise I do. Sometimes I do well and all my BG readings for a day are between 4 and 7 mmol/l. But often I go lower (after exercise, yesterday, I experienced a 2.2mmol/l hypo) and go higher (the thunder storm woke me in the middle of the night with a BG of 10.5mmol/l). The average of a good day and yesterday are likely to be very similar. </p><p>So a HbA1C is an excellent tool for providing a single figure indication of BG control but it does not tell the whole story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted Account, post: 1512504"] Hb1AC is an average over the last three months. Someone without diabetes is unlikely to experience much fluctuation in BG as the body self-regulates to maintain a BG of around 5.5mmol/l. I am not sure what this is equivalent to in terms of Hb1AC. Someone with diabetes manages the fluctuation without their body's help. For example, with type 1, I manage my BG my attempting to match my insulin needs with what I eat, how stressed I am and how much exercise I do. Sometimes I do well and all my BG readings for a day are between 4 and 7 mmol/l. But often I go lower (after exercise, yesterday, I experienced a 2.2mmol/l hypo) and go higher (the thunder storm woke me in the middle of the night with a BG of 10.5mmol/l). The average of a good day and yesterday are likely to be very similar. So a HbA1C is an excellent tool for providing a single figure indication of BG control but it does not tell the whole story. [/QUOTE]
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