I was having an HbA1c so timed the medichecks test so I could get the phlebotomist at the surgery to fill their vial at the same time. She was fine with it.. once she got my blood flowing.. no easy task..
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Off meds but BG is rising should I worry?
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The diff is they measure your blood glucose at the same time and use that fancy equation to work out your IR.
Although it came up with a different answer when @LittleGreyCat (I think) had theirs done.
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I am having a very bad evening methinks. I need to go for a lie down in a dark place.
Of course .... it is the insulin resistance test that I ordered (and am still waiting to do). Just ignore me all of you. It is still fasting though.
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Medicheck says:
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We use the calculation which is supplied by the lab, it returns slightly different results to the HOMA one. The calculation they use is:
Insulin(mIU/L)*Glucose(mmol/L)/25 and has a range of <1.0.
They are both clinically valid ways to assess insulin resistance, if they would rather use the HOMA algorithm it is:
Glucose(mmol/L)*Insulin(pmol/L)/160.5 which has a range of <2.0.
However they would need to convert the units before doing this.
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So very similar to HOMA but dividing by 25 instead of 22.5.
This does make me wonder why the limit for their test is 1 and for HOMA it is 2. Either way, both calculations for me come in at above 2.
Strange units for HOMA as well, pmol/L.
The references I read say:
"HOMA-IR was calculated according to the formula: fasting insulin (microU/L) x fasting glucose (nmol/L)/22.5."
Whatever, this has reminded me to prod them about an estimate of ß cell functionality.
