i have just visited my diabetic specialist and he said my Hbalc is 54 and is goodbut this is new to me as it used to be 7.6 or similar why is it now this number and is 54 good in comparison and what is a good reading in this higher number. Does my question make sence ?
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mistee71
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Sorry but i still dont understand. Since becoming diabetic i have had only one 3 month blood test. It came back as 9. on the calculator it changes it mmol which came back as 74. something. I thought that your daily testing is measured in mmol ? :crazy: Have i got confussed somewhere along the line? If it changed in October shouldn't the nurse have given me the results in the new way. I had the test in January. :shock:
Sorry but i still dont understand. Since becoming diabetic i have had only one 3 month blood test. It came back as 9. on the calculator it changes it mmol which came back as 74. something. I thought that your daily testing is measured in mmol ? :crazy: Have i got confussed somewhere along the line? If it changed in October shouldn't the nurse have given me the results in the new way. I had the test in January. :shock:
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Edit: Oh, and please consider changing your avatar to something less seizure-inducing :twisted:
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Some background: A mole is a number (number of atoms in 12g 12C, 6.022×10^23). Daily blood glucose is measured in mmol/l i.e. the number of glucose molecules in moles found in one litre of blood [or mg/dl, which is glucose in grams found in one decilitre - same thing]; HbA1c is measured in mmol/mol so that's a proportion (of A1c molecules to ? - I don't think it really matters). The old HbA1c units (%) were also a proportion but due to a change in calibration the new results would have been lower so they changed it (unsuccessfully, it seems) to avoid confusion.
Edit: Oh, and please consider changing your avatar to something less seizure-inducing :twisted:
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avatar changing.
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I like your avatar Mistee..perhaps AMBrennan could cover the offending avatar with a hand while viewing your posts. :wink:
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OH!
avatar changing.
I like your avatar Mistee..perhaps AMBrennan could cover the offending avatar with a hand while viewing your posts. :wink:
