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Yer noth the onnly one that finds it amusing… We fought a revolution to remove British rule and still use the British ruler… Go figure… ’Mericans are strange animals… :) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Hmmmm….. Love those Yanks who insist that maintaining the British Imperial System somehow makes them an innovative and forward thinking race! No intention to cause ill-feeling……just find it amusing! Cheers. Nathan Jones Materials Engineer and T1 for 4 years And it’s not only the Aussies who use mmol, I think it’s just us Americans who ~don’t~. mmol is bad. mg/l is good. The metric system is bad. McDonalds is good. One-world government is bad. Private gun ownership is good. Rice is bad. Beef is good. Resistance is futile You will be assimilated. Darryl ** The opinions expressed in this post may not be representative of those held by the author, and are not intended for internal use by any persons, either alive or dead. ** Before you buy.

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Hmmmm….. Love those Yanks who insist that maintaining the British Imperial System somehow makes them an innovative and forward thinking race! No intention to cause ill-feeling……just find it amusing! Cheers. Nathan Jones Materials Engineer and T1 for 4 years – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – And it’s not only the Aussies who use mmol, I think it’s just us Americans who ~don’t~. mmol is bad. mg/l is good. The metric system is bad. McDonalds is good. One-world government is bad. Private gun ownership is good. Rice is bad. Beef is good. Resistance is futile You will be assimilated. Darryl ** The opinions expressed in this post may not be representative of those held by the author, and are not intended for internal use by any persons, either alive or dead. ** Before you buy.

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Hello all. Just a quick question….. In Australia the convention is to use the SI units of mmol/L as our BG levels. Am I right in assuming that the mg/dL value that you are all quoting can be converted to SI by simply dividing by 18? (Taking into account the 180 molecular weight of glucose and the 1/10th Litre value) Just curious. Seems right to me, but this may help to clarify for others who may be wondering why a 100 value would be considered good! (Converts to 5.6 for us Downunder)

There’s an explanation and a chart in the Diabetes FAQ: http://www.landfield.com/faqs/diabetes/faq/part1/section-9.html If you can’t easily do these calculations in your head, it’s a good chart to print out and put by your keyboard. "mmol/L is millimoles/liter, and is the world standard unit for measuring glucose in blood. Specifically, it is the designated SI (Systeme International) unit. "World standard", of course, means that mmol/L is used everywhere in the world except in the US." Jude — Crouch Enterprises – Telecom, Internet & Unix Consulting Oak Park, IL 708-848-0134 URL: http://www.pobox.com/~jcrouch

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Darryl wrote The metric system is bad….

Look what happened to NASA for not using the metric system everywhere…. — Yev

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello all. Just a quick question….. In Australia the convention is to use the SI units of mmol/L as our BG levels. Am I right in assuming that the mg/dL value that you are all quoting can be converted to SI by simply dividing by 18? (Taking into account the 180 molecular weight of glucose and the 1/10th Litre value) Just curious. Seems right to me, but this may help to clarify for others who may be wondering why a 100 value would be considered good! (Converts to 5.6 for us Downunder) Cheers. Nathan Jones Materials Engineer – T1 for 4 years

Yes, the conversion factor for BGs is ~18. For Cholesterol numbers (HDL, LDL, Total), which is also given to you in mmol/l, use 38.7 as the conversion factor. For Triglicerides, it’s 88.3 I found all three numbers in a research paper somewhere on the web.

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mmol is bad. mg/l is good. The metric system is bad. McDonalds is good.

I suppose it is futile to point out that mg/l is miligrams/liter which is pretty metric. — Charly Coughran

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LOL – you’re in a mood today .

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And it’s not only the Aussies who use mmol, I think it’s just us Americans who ~don’t~.

mmol is bad. mg/l is good. The metric system is bad. McDonalds is good. One-world government is bad. Private gun ownership is good. Rice is bad. Beef is good. Resistance is futile You will be assimilated. Darryl ** The opinions expressed in this post may not be representative of those held by the author, and are not intended for internal use by any persons, either alive or dead. ** Before you buy.

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In Australia the convention is to use the SI units of mmol/L as our BG levels. Am I right in assuming that the mg/dL value that you are all quoting can be converted to SI by simply dividing by 18? (Taking into account the 180 molecular weight of glucose and the 1/10th Litre value)

<snip Yup. Every once and a while someone pops up with that question – you’re it! . I believe 18.2 is more accurate, but considering how accurate our meters are – who cares…. I often just use 20 as a quickie. Some people actually convert and use ~both~ in their posts, but hang around here long enough and you’ll soon catch on regardless. I never knew why the conversion worked out. Thanks for the info. And it’s not only the Aussies who use mmol, I think it’s just us Americans who ~don’t~. Beth T2 12 years, Glucophage, diet, and exercise

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