[scrabblehack]

6.4% vs. 7.9%?? That can’t be right.

Could anyone convert that to mg/dL? (that’s milligrams per deciliter). My blood sugar meter is in those units.

As I recall, one pint of blood is about a pound.
One deciliter of blood would be about 466000 mg.
So by weight, 100 mg/dL looks to be about 0.02%.

Now the fasting level should be 80-100 mg/dL. However I don’t think my max is more than 0.1% by weight.

I can’t believe the proportions by volume would be vastly different.

[neverdem]

6.4% vs. 7.9%?? That can’t be right.

It caught my attention too. IIRC, that came from the USAToday piece, and it means nothing without defining what terms they are describing. That's one the problems with the press in general.