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Yes, I agree it is good to be accurate. And to be critical of sources.
My source are the Diabetes nurse and couple doctors. Also national diabetes association of Finland. I assume we are talking about T2 as this forum is called "Type 2 diabetes". None of the diabetes professional have said to me 5.6 mmol would be in no way bad. On my last visit my doctor actually told me that the 5.0 I was aiming for was too low and I would not be gaining any benefits from it. And it even could be counter productive IF (note: it IF here!) this goal would cause my BG levels swing a lot. And Doctor told me that I should let my morning reading raise to 6-7 mmol range so there would be less of a swing to my after meal values of 8-9. In Finland non-diabetic fasting Blood Glucose value range is 3.9-7.2. As is in my my Bauer Contour BG meter software and it's manual. After eating values both say should be under 10 and that 8.2 is upper limit of non diabetic after eating. So BG should never go to double figures. My insulin medication (Lantus) manual says to contact doctor immediately if fasting BG is over 15. So this is from 3-5 official sources. Also empiric knowledge as my BG was 15,3 mmol when I was diagnosed and I having symptoms of nephropathy only few months after being diagnosed. So the one thing I can tell with at absolute ***** certainty that: over 15 mmol is bad.
And they also told be that only thing worse then BG over 15 is crashing that value to 7 in two weeks and that might have caused more nerve damage than having that value for years. That is good to know, only thing better would have been told that BEFORE I did it. Instead of being told by the GP that diagnosed me that we need to get your sugar levels down fast. I mention this to illustrate that there is information and "information" and that Doctors not always, and it seem quite often, are not have full knowledge of this disease.
Do you have some information that contradicts the values I mentioned ?