New measurements

[Chrisell]

I guess it could have been predicted! The new means of calculating test results will just make people panic. I have just done a quick check. Nine per cent comes out at 77mml while six per cent is something like 44mmol. And the level we are being told to aim for is around four per cent mark or lower ( I think)
So once again the patient will be co-erced into striving for ever lower levels and made to feel guilty when they are not achieved.
There will also be a boom in diagnosis numbers.
Is in not about time that people looked beyond the stats and realised that as with everything in life these figures are just averages? I know people with Type 2 who live quite happily at around the 10 per cent mark and some who operate at much lower levels.
Juat stop making everyone who does not fit in with the stats feeling they are in some way inadequate.

 

[Grazer]

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six per cent is something like 44mmol. And the level we are being told to aim for is around four per cent mark or lower ( I think)

Hi! think you may have got the wrong end of the stick about new targets. We will be "encouraged to keep below 48 mmol/mol" on the new measurement, which is the equivalent of 6.5% on the old measurement, so same same. I agree it's a shame to change a system we've all got used to, but I suppose we'll get used to the new numbers soon enough

 

[Fencer]

The only issue I can see, is with people's perceptions when comparing with old results (even when you do the conversion, the perception of what the results mean will have changed).