The HbA1c blood test is one that most people with diabetes are familiar with, at least to some extent. It measures the proportion of haemoglobin in our blood that has bonded with glucose, and is regarded as an indicator of your average BG levels over the preceding 3 months. “What’s your HbA1c?” is a question …
Talk of “Time in Range” and goal ranges regarding BG and CGM data is a common thing these days. I have written about Targets and Goals in the past. Various different pieces of software let you define your “low” and “high” marks to define your goal range, and then report statistics on what percentage of TiR …
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 …