HbA1c changes

[broads]

http://diabetes.org.uk/upload/Professio ... eaflet.pdf

 

[Bubsy Malone]

Thanks broads, my mum went to a diabetes uk meeting on Monday and was given the exact same leaflet - I went up to visit her today and was able to read it to her. Good job I go and see her during the week - my younger brother lives with her but he's autistic and doesn't like "medical stuff" so won't read it out to her!

 

[Trinkwasser]

How many millions of pounds has this cost the NHS (that could have been spent on test strips)?

 

[Dennis]

And what on earth is the point. The blurb says this is to bring us into line, but the UK is the only country in the world that uses mmol as a means of measuring anything!

 

[broads]

Isn't it the usual thing? If something works well, then lets change it?

 

[sugarless sue]

Anyone know how to convert that? It doesn't seem to have a common multiple.

 

[broads]

Sorry Sue I may have completely misunderstood your last mail. Isn't the conversion on page 2 of the leaflet?

 

[lilibet]

More to the point
Why does it start at 6% , oh sorry I mean 42. Is that the meaning of life :lol:

 

[jenrose]

They want to befuddle us, is all.

 

[nessa-lou]

i'm not being funny but when i go to clinic i know if my hba1c is 10% i know that high and need t ochange it. now i have to work out were the boundary is for were i should be at. gosh they dont half make things complicated for us! and im at clinic next in june, so best get used to this.
also when i was in the children's clinic we used to have a machine were it told you striaght away your long term test it was great you didnt have to wait til next time. More money should be spend on that rather then having a full blood test done!!!

 

[sugarless sue]

Sorry Sue I may have completely misunderstood your last mail. Isn't the conversion on page 2 of the leaflet?

I was wondering how it converts .It does not give you every number as a conversion.

 

[three1ne]

I was just thinking its time we changed from something we all understand.

I think this month ill start writing with my left hand.

 

[Buachaille]

IFCC-HbA1c (mmol/mol) = [DCCT-HbA1c (%)- 2.15] x 10.929

Why change?
After the DCCT, a new standard specific for
HbA1c was prepared by the International
Federation of Clinical Chemistry and
Laboratory Medicine (IFCC). In future,
manufacturers will supply IFCC standardised
values for their calibrators as well as DCCTaligned
values. The units for reporting
HbA1c will also be changed so that HbA1c
reported by laboratories is traceable to the
IFCC reference method. Global comparison
of HbA1c results will therefore be possible.

 

[sugarless sue]

Thanks Buachaille