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Old 12-08-2011, 10:35 AM
adrianconnelly adrianconnelly is offline
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Red face HbA1c measures

Are there any plans to allow logging of HbA1c readings to the proposed new (maybe not that new) universal mmol/mol measurement in addition to the current DCCT percentage measure? It seems that laboratories in many countries will be adopting the mmol/mol measure for HbA1c lab tests and many will be reporting both on pathology reports. Australia will move to the new system sometime soon, Some Euro countries have already done so but I'm not sure what the US is doing. See http://www.aacb.asn.au/admin/?getfile=2802.

The GB web site's A1c estimator includes the mmol/mol measurement but the iPhone app doesn't as yet have it to log lab results in that format (well, not that I've been able to find). It just has the % measure for its logs.

Are there any plans to update the app to incorporate the mmol/mol for HbA1c logs? It would be good if the app could cater for both to save conversion. Some countries will cease reporting the old pergentage measure, others will report both.

For those that are technically minded, the conversion formulae are...

Where P = the current HbA1c percentage measure, and
Q = the new mmol/mol measure

To convert the old percentage measure to the new mmol/mol measure…
Q = ((10.93 x P) - 23.5); and

To convert the new mmol/mol measure to the old percentage measure
P = ((0.09148 x Q) + 2.152)

Examples:
Old HbA1c of 6% is…
((10.93 x 6) - 23.5)
= 65.56 – 23.5
= 42.08(mmol/mol)

New HbA1c of 57 mmol/mol
= ((0.09148 x 57) + 2.152)
= 5.21436 + 2.152
= 7.366(%)

[I just knew you'd all be fascinated by that :-)]
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