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Type 2 Blood results conversion charts

seascapes

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I just cannot find a conversion chart that WORKS! I test often and get results such as 6.7 or 8.8. My surgery, after the regular blood test, gives me silly numbers like 71 or 75. When I look online for conversion charts and type in 75 I get the answer of 149!! I can;t find a way to make sense of the number 75 and how it relates to my finger-prick meter tests. My diabetic nurse has a little cardboard wheel which she rotates to get 'the answer'. But she says its her only one. I need to buy one like it. Can anyone help or advise how to make sense of the numbers please?
 
Are you trying to connect your HbA1c result to your finger prick testing?

I seem to remember the following formula:

(Average BG readings + 2.52) / 1.583 = HbA1c (%)

Obviously it will never be exact..........impossible really, but can get you close.......
 
When I got my meter there was a page in the back of the instruction booklet that is a conversion chart. 75 is around 4.2%
 
That chart is to change mmol/l to mg/dl . Basically the results from your blood glucose meter can be in either of 2 units mmol/l of mg/dl (it depends on the country you are in, you are presumably in the UK and use mmol/l so your meter will give levels in single and perhaps double figures (mmol/l). I'm in France and my meter will give me readings with two or three figures. The chart above changes one to the other.
(so my glucose a few minutes ago was 90mg/dl if I had an English meter it would be 5mmol/l ;the chart above is actually a bit skewed ! )

This is not the same as the HbA1c which is a test done at the doctors.(normally with blood sent away but some may have a machine that gives instant results.) This tells you what your control has been like over the past two-three months. In the UK that result is now in mmol/mol
It is though only an estimate You also have to remember that when you test your own blood with a meter its just a spot check; ten minutes later it may be higher or lower. Unless you test several times a day, both at times when you are high and at times when you are lower, your average could be quite different to the one on the converter.
Here is a converter to convert HbA1c in mmol/mol to an estimated average glucose level. 71mmol/mol though is an estimated average of 11.2 mmol/l http://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-units-converter.html
 
I think you may be looking for http://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-to-blood-sugar-level-converter.html.

Old thread, but I found it trying to work out what my reading of 6.1 on a finger prick was in HbA1c terms.

Turns out to be 5.4 or 36 (in new money) which is better than I expected.
I was thinking that a normal finger prick needed to be down in the mid 5s to hit the non-diabetic numbers.
Shows how much you forget.
 
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