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Meter readings in percentages?

cocacola

cocacola

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I have a Freestyle Lite and it reads in old values, 5.6, 6.7, 8.9 etc
Do any meters read in percentages?
HbA1c is now in percentages and it's getting confusing.
 
cocacola said:
I have a Freestyle Lite and it reads in old values, 5.6, 6.7, 8.9 etc
Do any meters read in percentages?
HbA1c is now in percentages and it's getting confusing.
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Meters don't read in percentages. They wouldn't tell you anything useful.

Hba1C percentages are the old values. The new ones are in mmol/mol, Meters read in mmol/l, which is a different unit.

Meters will therefore not read in percentages ever.
 
Hba1c is a measure of the glucose percentage concentration in the red blood cells only, ie.if 100% the red blood cell is completely saturated with glucose. Because red blood cells live for up to 3 months it is used as means of measuring your average glucose levels over extended period. In reality Hba1c gives a result biased towards your performance over a three weeks to a month.​

Your meter reading is a snap shot measure of the glucose dissolved in your blood the concentration in your blood is completey different from that in red blood cells.

Your meter reading is the correct units you can estimate your HBA1c if you have your average reading in mmol/ml from your meter using the converter on the lower part of thr page on this link http://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-to-blood-sugar-level-converter.html
 
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