Blood Glucose Curve Test

Charts are visual assistance

for tracking varying blood glucose levels

Originally posted Thursday 30 April 2009, 08:30

Tracking Yvan's curves

To make it easier to follow progress in a dog featured here, I am adding a kind of tracking list, which merely links to other charts for the same dog.

1. Yvan 1
2. Yvan 2
3. Yvan 3
4. Yvan 4

From the list of readings, we make a chart

A chart is useful visual assistance.

Charts can distort the picture!

The chart above has the limitation that the readings shown as 33.3 mmol/L (which is the same as approximately 600 mg/dL) were, on the meter used, shown simply as "HI", which, in effect, means, "Off the chart!"

All the same, I wanted to represent those readings on the chart, so I made them the highest reading that the meter might have registered.

I hope to gain more skills with Microsoft Excel and its charting capabilities; meantime, this chart should serve, as it gives a reasonable idea of Yvan's curve taken on 14 April, 2009.

"mmol/L" means, "millimoles per Liter," which is the standard unit of BG measurement outside the United States. However, in the list of readings, I have shown the figures in mg/dL, which means "milligrams per deciLiter," as well. That is the standard for BG measurements in the U.S.

One day maybe I'll learn how to get Excel to add the mg/dL numbering as well.

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