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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 350692" data-attributes="member: 55568">But you are comparing a capillary blood sample at the hospital with a capillary blood sample at home and that is different from what I wrote which was that capillary blood samples are not as accurate as venous blood samples. I gave an example in my subsequent post above:"For example, my meter showed a plasma bg count of 8.8 mmol/L before I went for lab testing. When I returned, the reading was 8.0 mmol/L. These are of course capillary tests using a finger pricker. The result of the lab test using venous blood was 7.6 mmol/L. A clear difference between capillary and venous blood results entirely in keeping wth the published literature."For a comparison, you'd need an hba1c reading from a venous blood sample, not another meter.</blockquote>

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