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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2264519" data-attributes="member: 41816">Don't worry about the confusion.  We all get confused to start with.  lol.Here in the UK, HbA1c is measured in mmol/mol which gives numbers like your 45 and sometimes up to over 100, with below 42 being normal, and 42-47 being pre-diabetic, and over 48 being diabetic.  This is an average reading over the last 2-3 months.However, when we do our finger prick testing with a home meter, we get a snapshot of what our blood glucose is at that time.  This is measured (in the UK) as mmol/l and gives numbers that could be anywhere from 4 upwards, with 'normal' blood glucose being, as [USER=219467]@bulkbiker[/USER] says, between 4 and 7.This graphic shows how the different measures line up(the % figure is how America measures HbA1c, and how the UK used to measure it several years ago.  Sometimes you still get old school doctors in the UK giving HBA1c in % but that shouldn't have been used officially for years now)<img src="https://www.beatoapp.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/HbA1c-indicator.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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