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<blockquote data-quote="Sid Bonkers" data-source="post: 225881" data-attributes="member: 19121"><p>In the UK all bg monitors used to measure the glucose in whole blood but changed over to plasma last year/2010. The monitoring technique remains unchanged but the results are very slightly higher ie:</p><p></p><p>Whole Blood 5.0 mmol/L becomes 5.5 to 5.8 mmol/L</p><p>Whole Blood 5.8 mmol/L becomes 6.4 to 6.7 mmol/L</p><p>Whole Blood 6.9 mmol/L becomes 7.6 to 7.9 mmol/L</p><p>Whole Blood 8.3 mmol/L becomes 9.1 to 9.5 mmol/L</p><p>Whole Blood 8.9 mmol/L becomes 9.8 to 10.2 mmol/L</p><p>Whole Blood 10 mmol/L becomes 11.0 to 11.5 mmol/L</p><p></p><p>Information from the Accu-Chek web site gives all the info: <a href="http://www.accu-chek.co.uk/gb/news/14april10.html" target="_blank">http://www.accu-chek.co.uk/gb/news/14april10.html</a></p><p></p><p>To be honest I didnt notice much of a difference after my strips changed over, the most noticeable difference seemed to be my fasting readings which had been pretty much all 5's and started to slip into all 6.1's to 6.5's. I have actually now got them mainly back in the 5's which I am pleased with and probably wouldnt have happened if the hadn't changed the testing system over to plasma as I would have carried on not trying to lower them. Every cloud has a silver lining as they say LOL <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sid Bonkers, post: 225881, member: 19121"] In the UK all bg monitors used to measure the glucose in whole blood but changed over to plasma last year/2010. The monitoring technique remains unchanged but the results are very slightly higher ie: Whole Blood 5.0 mmol/L becomes 5.5 to 5.8 mmol/L Whole Blood 5.8 mmol/L becomes 6.4 to 6.7 mmol/L Whole Blood 6.9 mmol/L becomes 7.6 to 7.9 mmol/L Whole Blood 8.3 mmol/L becomes 9.1 to 9.5 mmol/L Whole Blood 8.9 mmol/L becomes 9.8 to 10.2 mmol/L Whole Blood 10 mmol/L becomes 11.0 to 11.5 mmol/L Information from the Accu-Chek web site gives all the info: [url=http://www.accu-chek.co.uk/gb/news/14april10.html]http://www.accu-chek.co.uk/gb/news/14april10.html[/url] To be honest I didnt notice much of a difference after my strips changed over, the most noticeable difference seemed to be my fasting readings which had been pretty much all 5's and started to slip into all 6.1's to 6.5's. I have actually now got them mainly back in the 5's which I am pleased with and probably wouldnt have happened if the hadn't changed the testing system over to plasma as I would have carried on not trying to lower them. Every cloud has a silver lining as they say LOL :D [/QUOTE]
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