[Diabetes-talk] HBA1C calculators.

[d m gina]

I need something a bit more simple, where I can put in numbers or what 
you need to do and it would convert it for me.
If it gets to complicated then I don't understand.
Glad this works for you.

Original message:
> Hi there.

> I am also sending copies of this email to some of my diabetic friends in
> South Africa, as well as to a South African diabetes forum to which I
> belong and although I am addressing a South African audience, have still
> tried to give this post a bit of an international flavour for the
> benefit of everyone else.

> Not quite sure how useful this is going to be to folks on the community,
> but I have discovered a tool which can give you a fairly good idea of
> what your HBA1C is going to be before you even go to the doctor. The
> tool can be found on the Accu-chek web site for the United States and is
> situated at
> https://www.accu-chek.com/us/glucose-monitoring/a1c-calculator.html#

> I went searching for this tool in response to a question put by someone
> who belongs to one of the other international diabetes forums to which I
> also belong.

> The only thing that you should bear in mind if you are going to use this
> tool, is that you will have to convert our MMol/L to mg/dl which is the
> measuring unit peculiar to the United States only, as far as I can
> ascertain. In order to convert MMol/L to mg/dl, simply multiply our
> numbers by 18 so that a reading of 6.0, for instance, would translate
> into 108 in US terms and 6.5 would translate into 117.

> I have tried using the calculator, using my sugar averages from old
> diaries and the reading compares well with HBA1C's I recorded in the past.

> What you should note is that the HBA1C figures in the USA work out to
> the same as the unit we use here, so that if your HBA1C would be say,
> 6.0 here, it will also be 6.0 in the United States.

> If you do not live in the United States and you cannot do the sums, I
> would recommend a programable unit converter called Converber the
> portable version of which can be downloaded from
> http://www.portableapps.com

> You will have to program the unit conversions for diabetes into the
> program, but that is a relatively simple task to do. If you are stuck on
> how to do this, please feel free to write me and we can perhaps arrange
> to chat on Skype on the net and help you to do the conversion.

> If you are stuck regarding getting the program, I think I have a copy
> here which I can send you.

> Finally, the Accu-chek web site is screen reader accessible, and in
> particular, and for the benefit of NVDA users, it is also NVDA friendly.

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