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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2264534" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>This is why is it very unhelpful for people to get hung up on the exact level of risk, down to 0.1%</p><p>That way lies madness and obsession.</p><p></p><p>No test is 100% accurate, and every test carries a variable margin of error dependent on a whole host of factors.</p><p>But that is just common sense. </p><p></p><p>We all know if our HbA1cs are on target or not, and if our prick tests are on target, or not. Even the newly diagnosed will have had a blood test and know how high or low their result was, and 'how diabetic' they are.</p><p></p><p>Then most of us know if we have co-morbidities, and how old we are.</p><p>The more, the higher, the older, and the more care we should be taking.</p><p>Once we start adding in things like how good our diets are, and how fit we are, and whether we have a history of chesty coughs, or similar, then we are entering blind guesstimation anyway.</p><p></p><p>All that any of us can do is make a judgement call, based on the information we have at our disposal at the time, and then make a sensible choice about future actions, based on that judgement call.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 2264534, member: 41816"] This is why is it very unhelpful for people to get hung up on the exact level of risk, down to 0.1% That way lies madness and obsession. No test is 100% accurate, and every test carries a variable margin of error dependent on a whole host of factors. But that is just common sense. We all know if our HbA1cs are on target or not, and if our prick tests are on target, or not. Even the newly diagnosed will have had a blood test and know how high or low their result was, and 'how diabetic' they are. Then most of us know if we have co-morbidities, and how old we are. The more, the higher, the older, and the more care we should be taking. Once we start adding in things like how good our diets are, and how fit we are, and whether we have a history of chesty coughs, or similar, then we are entering blind guesstimation anyway. All that any of us can do is make a judgement call, based on the information we have at our disposal at the time, and then make a sensible choice about future actions, based on that judgement call. [/QUOTE]
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