[Diabetes-talk] HBA1C calculators.

Mon Apr 2 15:25:26 UTC 2012

I wouldn't trust any such calculator since accuracy depends upon the details of data entry -- when and how often readings were taken, for example. I don't even believe in the usefulness of meter averages.

Mike Freeman
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On Apr 2, 2012, at 7:46, d m gina <dmgina at samobile.net> wrote:

> Thanks Mike, I sure would appreciate it.
> Now I would love it if it were for the IPhone.
> 
> Original message:
>> This one is quite simple. You type in your figures and press the button.
>> The multiplication thing is purely applicable in the context of persons
>> living outside of the USA. I will have a look to see if I can find a
>> HBA1C calculator where you don't need to do the calculations.
> 
>> Michael Park.
>> I am not an expert, because "ex" means "has been" and "spert" is "a drip under pressure".
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>> On 2012/04/02 02:45, d m gina wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
>>>> --
>>>> Michael Park.
>>>> I am not an expert, because "ex" means "has been" and "spert" is "a
>>>> drip under pressure".
> 
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> 
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