In this episode of Defining Diabetes, Jenny Smith and I are going to define time in range.

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Jenny, in the diabetes world, we are now hearing a lot more about the idea of being in range

than the time that you're in that range. So when people hear those words

time and range what does it mean? Really it's a better visual of how much time

you're spending within a target range.

Overall definition of time and range,

the range for that is about 70 to 180.

That's overall.

If you have your own range that you want to stick with, let's say you want to be 80 to 140 or 70 to 120, that would be your individual aimed time in range, right?

And you can adjust that.

If you're using a Dexcom, you can adjust your own settings

so that Clarity reports give you your time

specifically in the range that you have requested to be, but that it

represents overall the amount or the percent of the overall glucose values that are ending up within that range that you want to be within.

Okay. It's more important than A1C.

I am a professional and time in range is more important to look at than A1C.

Okay, so now if I said, you're saying between 70 and 180, and my time and those were the numbers, and my time and range is 100% in there, and my A1C is 6.4 you'd rather that be the truth than my A1C be 5.9 but I'm under 70 and over 180 an appreciable amount of the time.

Right, exactly, exactly.

That's why the A1C, it's a place to start,

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