Standard Deviation, Time in Range, HbA1c, etc. Do they correlate in any way? Sure they give us information about how our blood glucose levels have been tracking over the previous few months. But most of us only look at the latest figures. I showed my own latest data in yesterday’s “What’s normal?” post. In preparing for my latest endocrinologist …
Continuous Glucose Monitoring gives us lots of data, and various attempts have been made to distill it down into simple metrics. This is a difficult job as there can be a huge depth of data available in there, which can be lost if we only look at high level numbers. But people are used to …
As I’ve written before, my own glycaemia has been described by some doctors as “approaching normoglycaemia”, and my last lab HbA1c result came in at 33 mmol/mol (5.2%). I’m not going to pretend that I’m “normal” (and I’m not the example in this article) but personally I have been feeling that my BG profile has …
There has been a lot of talk about TIR (Time in Range) and SD (Standard Deviation) being more useful measures of glycaemia than HbA1c. Looking back at my own experience I can see an issue relevant to this. I should reiterate: HbA1c only indicates what your average BG was. It says nothing about how wild …
I had to laugh recently. Various advertising from diabetes companies comes through my feeds, and this time it was an ad from Medtronic Australia, touting the improvements in TIR (Time In Range) for their 670G pump. Here it is reproduced in its entirety: I’m not sure exactly where they sourced this data, but presumably …
What is your goal for managing your BG levels? Many people think of the range 3.9-10 mmol/L as their “goal” for their blood glucose. It’s a commonly-referenced range. Of course, that’s being quite specific in terms of a goal. For most of us a better high-level goal is probably something like “live a full and happy life”. …