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<blockquote data-quote="Mr_Pot" data-source="post: 2419627" data-attributes="member: 216415"><p>The chart doesn't work like that, you can't use it for individual readings. The figures above the scale are HbA1c which is an <u>indication</u> of average glucose levels over the previous 2-3 months. The figures below the scale are <u>actual</u> average glucose levels which you would get if you took a very large number of finger prick tests at different times of multiple days and averaged them. Because it is very difficult to get a meaningful average from finger prick tests that is why doctors use HbA1c as a proxy. So your husbands HbA1c of 54 mmol/mol equates to an average finger prick test of 8.7 mmol/L (156 mg/dL), which as you can see is in the green/yellow section of the chart and is incidentally nearly the same as mine was. I had non-diabetic numbers in 3 months of a moderately low carb diet and no medication.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr_Pot, post: 2419627, member: 216415"] The chart doesn't work like that, you can't use it for individual readings. The figures above the scale are HbA1c which is an [U]indication[/U] of average glucose levels over the previous 2-3 months. The figures below the scale are [U]actual[/U] average glucose levels which you would get if you took a very large number of finger prick tests at different times of multiple days and averaged them. Because it is very difficult to get a meaningful average from finger prick tests that is why doctors use HbA1c as a proxy. So your husbands HbA1c of 54 mmol/mol equates to an average finger prick test of 8.7 mmol/L (156 mg/dL), which as you can see is in the green/yellow section of the chart and is incidentally nearly the same as mine was. I had non-diabetic numbers in 3 months of a moderately low carb diet and no medication. [/QUOTE]
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