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BG Monitor v HbA1C Chart

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Zaraah

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Hello all I cannot seem to find the chart members post (the semi circle coloured one) where you can roughly estimate what your BG monitor results is converted to HbA1C.

Wish I had taken a screenshot! 🙂

Whilst posting thought give an update, my waking average of 6mmol and below is now 7mmol with reduced medication. Really need to cut out the odd treats although treats seem more regular so I know why and think it’s the daily steps that are keeping me down. Meals are good, it’s those sweet treats!! :(

Wanted to see if my 7mmol walking average is bad as medication halved past couple of weeks by Diabetic Nurse when repeat HbA1C showed went down from 129 to 41 🙂
 
Thanks guys these are the ones 🙂
 
Those charts are old ones giving HbA1c only in the DCCT percentages and not showing the current IFCC mmol/mol. This is the one that does both:-
 

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Zaraah said:
Hello all I cannot seem to find the chart members post (the semi circle coloured one) where you can roughly estimate what your BG monitor results is converted to HbA1C.

Wish I had taken a screenshot! 🙂

Whilst posting thought give an update, my waking average of 6mmol and below is now 7mmol with reduced medication. Really need to cut out the odd treats although treats seem more regular so I know why and think it’s the daily steps that are keeping me down. Meals are good, it’s those sweet treats!! :(

Wanted to see if my 7mmol walking average is bad as medication halved past couple of weeks by Diabetic Nurse when repeat HbA1C showed went down from 129 to 41 🙂
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You refer to waking average BG - but the charts refer to average, ie average over the whole 24 hours, readings at other times than waking may be very different.
As the correlation between average BG and HbA1c is not particularly high, you want to think about HbA1c being equivalent to a range of average BG rather than a single reading as the chart suggests. It's a guide - but quite a rough guide!
 
silentsquirrel said:
You refer to waking average BG - but the charts refer to average, ie average over the whole 24 hours, readings at other times than waking may be very different.
As the correlation between average BG and HbA1c is not particularly high, you want to think about HbA1c being equivalent to a range of average BG rather than a single reading as the chart suggests. It's a guide - but quite a rough guide!
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These charts are a useful guide as long as people understand that they're not designed to correlate single readings, or a handful of readings, with a likely HbA1c. I've only ever used them to give me a rough idea of where my HbA1c might be based on a 3-month average of my waking and post-prandial finger pricks (around 200 readings). Even then I allow +/- 2 on what my HbA1c might actually be, so a range as you rightly point out.
 
Totally understand @silentsquirrel and as @Martin.A has said just using as a guide as helped me in past to give an idea of where I was at knowing that overall the HbA1C can be different from chart as looks at precious 3 months rather than just single test on waking.

I found for me it helped as gave me some assurance where I was heading when initially diagnosed at 129 in November 2024 and then follow up being 41.

Chart was wrong for me in that HbA1C was better that thought it would be so only good as guide and should not be relied on 🙂
 
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Yes, the numbers are just indicators of your condition.
Focusing on the zone rather than numbers would allow for that.
Indicative names and short texts for each of the seven zones would help?.

To set the ball rolling any advance on:
  1. Normal (glucose and lipid control)
  2. Prediabetes (fatty liver, glucose and lipid dysregulation, insulin resistancs)
  3. Mild T2D (excess fat in liver and pancreas)
  4. Moderate T2D (elevated glucose, dysregulation of endocrinal stsrem)
  5. Risky T2D (risk of retinopathy, neuropathy)
  6. Severe T2D (risk of Atherosclerosis and CKD)
  7. Dangerous T2D (risk of cardiovascular events, damage to liver and kidneys)
 
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Yes, the numbers are just indicators of your condition.
Focusing on the zone rather than numbers would allow for that.
Indicative names and short texts for each of the seven zones would help?.

To set the ball rolling any advance on:
  1. Normal (glucose and lipid control)
  2. Prediabetes (fatty liver, glucose and lipid dysregulation, insulin resistancs)
  3. Mild T2D (excess fat in liver and pancreas)
  4. Moderate T2D (elevated glucose, dysregulation of endocrinal stsrem)
  5. Risky T2D (risk of retinopathy, neuropathy)
  6. Severe T2D (risk of Atherosclerosis and CKD)
  7. Dangerous T2D (risk of cardiovascular events, damage to liver and kidneys)
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A HbA1c of 165 at diagnosis I must have gone straight to 10. Not sure how that would be categorised.
I wasn't hospitalised or tested for ketone although I had several other blood tests and scans to investigate weight loss cause.
 
silver minion said:
A HbA1c of 165 at diagnosis I must have gone straight to 10. Not sure how that would be categorised.
I wasn't hospitalised or tested for ketone although I had several other blood tests and scans to investigate weight loss cause.
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'Action Stations'?
 
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