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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Squire Fulwood" data-source="post: 1580637" data-attributes="member: 44622">I have seen many people confused by these numbers. Hba1c used to be expressed as a percentage (DCCT ) but this has now been replaced by a new scale and it is now expressed in mmol/l. I don't know why your nurse gave you the result in old money.Neither of these figures are the average blood glucose you get from a home testing kit. For example, in your case.7.7 (home reading average) might/might not be equal to 6.5% (DCCT) which is 47.5 mmol/l on the new scale.There is much controversy about whether a home average reading actually does equal anything at all on the Hba1c scales or even if it is mathematically possible to acquire a home average but we have a calculator that says it does.</blockquote>

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