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<blockquote data-quote="Raygower" data-source="post: 1894226" data-attributes="member: 483242"><p>Ah. I see the confusion!</p><p>It all comes from banding around numbers interchangably and without explaining what they are. Particularly A1C results which are expressed in several different and unrelated ways!</p><p></p><p>An A1C response of 6.1% (or 43M/Mol) equates to an average blood sugar of about 7.2mol/l over the last 3 months.</p><p>Apart from the units (your meter also supplies its results in mol/l), this result has nothing to do with your instant readings on the day. They could be correct at the time.</p><p></p><p>Most meters have a function to see the average of the readings over the last 7/14/30/60/90 days. The last 90 days is the one you should check.</p><p>If that shows as 7.3ish then I'd suggest it is a pretty fair reflection. </p><p>If it is significantly different, either, you are regularly missing something, or the meter is being a bit optimistic and you need to mentally add a couple of points to the answers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raygower, post: 1894226, member: 483242"] Ah. I see the confusion! It all comes from banding around numbers interchangably and without explaining what they are. Particularly A1C results which are expressed in several different and unrelated ways! An A1C response of 6.1% (or 43M/Mol) equates to an average blood sugar of about 7.2mol/l over the last 3 months. Apart from the units (your meter also supplies its results in mol/l), this result has nothing to do with your instant readings on the day. They could be correct at the time. Most meters have a function to see the average of the readings over the last 7/14/30/60/90 days. The last 90 days is the one you should check. If that shows as 7.3ish then I'd suggest it is a pretty fair reflection. If it is significantly different, either, you are regularly missing something, or the meter is being a bit optimistic and you need to mentally add a couple of points to the answers. [/QUOTE]
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