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<blockquote data-quote="Bluetit1802" data-source="post: 1481954" data-attributes="member: 94045"><p>Too many factors involved to answer that. Firstly, you only test a few times a day. Your blood glucose changes continually over 24 hours. Secondly, you will not be catching your peaks so they are excluded from your meter average. Thirdly, you are testing more times when numbers are lower than higher, and you have no idea what is happening overnight. Then the scientific bit. The standard length of time our red blood cells live is said to be about 90 to 120 days and this is the formula used to calculate an average glucose take up in these cells. As with everything in life, we are all different. People will have longer living RBC. Others will have shorter living ones. Others will have abnormal RBC. In those cases their HbA1c results will bear little resemblance to their meter readings. However, some folk on here do report their meter averages to be roughly similar. Mine are way out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluetit1802, post: 1481954, member: 94045"] Too many factors involved to answer that. Firstly, you only test a few times a day. Your blood glucose changes continually over 24 hours. Secondly, you will not be catching your peaks so they are excluded from your meter average. Thirdly, you are testing more times when numbers are lower than higher, and you have no idea what is happening overnight. Then the scientific bit. The standard length of time our red blood cells live is said to be about 90 to 120 days and this is the formula used to calculate an average glucose take up in these cells. As with everything in life, we are all different. People will have longer living RBC. Others will have shorter living ones. Others will have abnormal RBC. In those cases their HbA1c results will bear little resemblance to their meter readings. However, some folk on here do report their meter averages to be roughly similar. Mine are way out. [/QUOTE]
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