CONGRATS: Emily Prigodich of Windham, Ohio, USA, for being the first person with the correct answer!
=>Last month: We asked we asked for the magic formula used to convert blood sugar from mmol/l to mg/dl.
ANSWER: Multiply by 18.
A blood sugar of 6 mmol/l in places like Canada and the UK is the same as a blood sugar of 108 mg/dl in the US.
I can still remember the first time I worked with a client outside the US. They emailed to tell me their glucose dropped to “4” the previous night. After I regained consciousness and realized they could not have possibly been that low (“4” is essentially dead in mg/dl terms), we proceeded to troubleshoot the mild drop. Today, I can convert between mg/dl and mmol/l in my head using a trick: mmol/l doubled, times ten, minus 10% equals mg/dl. Mg/dl cut in half, divided by 10, plus 10% gets to mmol/l.
THIS MONTH’S NEW TRIVIA QUESTION:
Today, we know that tight glucose control helps reduce the risk of long-term diabetes complications. The DCCT and UKPDS studies back in the early ‘90s proved this beyond a reasonable doubt.
But years earlier, who was the first physician to profess the connection between glucose levels and complication risk?
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