General question

[lely]

I'm reading other people's BG results on a fb page and some use the other readings. ie 96. Or 140.
Is this just American readings or are all machines gonna move to this.
And is their a calculation to get this figure from my reading ie. 6.4.

 

[noblehead]

The Americans use mg/dl as where we use mmol/l in the UK, there's a conversion table in the following:

http://www.soc-bdr.org/rds/authors/...version_glucose_mg_dl_to_mmol_l/index_en.html

 

[Diamattic]

That's just another unit of measurement, America uses it, probably other countries as well

The conversion is roughly to divide that number by 18.01. So 140/18.01=7.77mmol/L

So, basically just divide by 18

 

[Pasha]

The conversion is simple,

Result in milligrams/deciliter divided by 18 =millimoles /liter.


For example 90 mg/dl divided by 18.0 =5.0 mmoles /liter.

so that 5.0 mmoles liter x18.0 = 90 mg/dl or

140 mg/dl/18 =7.777 mmoles/liter


{ the factor of 18.8 mentioned above is incorrect}

Hope that this helps

 

[Wurst]

Not just USA but most of Europe uses it. I have to convert my results from mg/dl to Mmol before posting on this site

 

[Robinredbreast]

I still use the old method, what I call ' in old money'

RRB

 

[Jaylee]

A well travelled and as open minded as i am to other countries unit of measurement.. I can't help siding with the "old money" mmoles with regards to blood sugar measurement readings.. I'd be cool with 5.0, but 90 mg/di just seems too high..!

 

[lely]

Think I'll stick to 'old money'
I'm glad it's not something being phased in.
My maths is stretched enough with card counting. Haha.