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<blockquote data-quote="alienskin" data-source="post: 2149593" data-attributes="member: 508073"><p>That's interesting that the UK < 42mmol/mol (6.0%) for pre-diabetes. This is clearly too high isn't it? That's an <em>average</em> of 7mmol/L (126mg/dl). An <em>average</em> of 6.9 certainly isn't normal.</p><p></p><p>And it wouldn't surprise me if the UK changes it to a lower level in the future. Getting a reading of just under 6% (42) and being told it's normal would mean a lot of people would not have a lot of time to make the changes necessary. Indeed, once you hit 6.0% hitting 6.5% is very common within a year or less.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I think that 6.0% (42) or 6.2% (44) should be a diabetes diagnosis (although this will never likely happen). Then individuals would make lifestyle changes when it was that much easier to do so. Now, this wouldn't work in the US as it would affect insurance issues but in the UK it would be possible. (I don't live in either).</p><p></p><p>As an aside, blood pressure normal levels were changed recently and so there is no reason that the same won't happen with T2D. </p><p></p><p>(Note: in the above I'm talking about HbA1c as a <em>diagnostic</em> tool rather than as a indicator of Diabetes Control. The former being used to diagnose people who are taking no medication and may or may not be diabetic).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alienskin, post: 2149593, member: 508073"] That's interesting that the UK < 42mmol/mol (6.0%) for pre-diabetes. This is clearly too high isn't it? That's an [I]average[/I] of 7mmol/L (126mg/dl). An [I]average[/I] of 6.9 certainly isn't normal. And it wouldn't surprise me if the UK changes it to a lower level in the future. Getting a reading of just under 6% (42) and being told it's normal would mean a lot of people would not have a lot of time to make the changes necessary. Indeed, once you hit 6.0% hitting 6.5% is very common within a year or less. Personally, I think that 6.0% (42) or 6.2% (44) should be a diabetes diagnosis (although this will never likely happen). Then individuals would make lifestyle changes when it was that much easier to do so. Now, this wouldn't work in the US as it would affect insurance issues but in the UK it would be possible. (I don't live in either). As an aside, blood pressure normal levels were changed recently and so there is no reason that the same won't happen with T2D. (Note: in the above I'm talking about HbA1c as a [I]diagnostic[/I] tool rather than as a indicator of Diabetes Control. The former being used to diagnose people who are taking no medication and may or may not be diabetic). [/QUOTE]
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