[help] I'm not sure if I have diabetes

[Eddy Edson]

Hi, I am not from the UK. I actually went to pharmacy for the test and it only takes about 10 minutes for the whole test. I think the reading is in percentage as it showed that normal glucose level is less than 6.5. Thank you.

Out of interest, which pharmacy is that?

It's a great non-diabetic number, but if it were me I'd maybe have some niggling doubts about accuracy - seems pretty sloppy to tag the result as "mmol/mol" rather than "%".

 

[Docb]

I can be a bit of a "units" nerd Eddy and if there is a sloppyness in mmol/mol, it is that it should by mmol of something/mol of something else. Quoting it as a percentage is fine if everybody everywhere uses the same measurement derived in the same way but is not helpful when trying to convert from one convention to another. Quoting a percentage takes it one stage further because any notion of what has actually been measured disappears completely. Not a problem when everybody uses the same standard but a bit of a bummer when they don't!