HBA1c

[emmerdale]

Doctors receptionist gave me my blood test results yesterday the figure being 50 and said normal,not sure what her qualifacations are for dishing out this info ,what i need to know is how to convert this to the old style numbers and is this reading good or not ??

 

[macast]

hi emmerdale....... if you look at the top of the forum page you will see HbA1c..... just click and it will take you to a page where you will see the conversion

I'm no expert but I wouldn't say that 50 was normal by any means.

what is your followup after the test?

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

More recent guidelines seem to be below 48 (6.5%).

Presumably the receptionist is still thinking of the old 7.5% guideline (59), though to be fair they are probably only going off the information on their screen.

FWIW 'normal' (if by that one means non-diabetic) would be below 37 (5.5%)

The precise conversion would be:
(New number/10.929)+2.15 = Old number in %

 

[macast]

ooh.... when you said the receptionist said 'normal' I assumed that she meant non-diabetic 'normal' LOL. sorry if I confused everyone 😱

 

[Vicsetter]

You are supposed to be at risk of cardiovascular problems if it's above 7%, there's also a lower limit, I believe. So my GP is happy with anything just below 7.