Blood glucose ranges and highlight colors

The app supports multiple target blood glucose ranges, each assigned labels such as fasting or pre-meal. A reading is judged against the range for its label: red for low, yellow for high. Readings without a matching label use the default 60 to 120 mg/dL range. Meal labels are added automatically if the meal is logged.

Our app supports multiple target blood glucose ranges. For example, you can have different target ranges for fasting, for pre-meal, 1-hour after meal, 2-hours after meal, "before bed" readings, and so on.

You can assign one or more labels to a target BG range. For example, if you are following American Diabetes Association's guidelines, you may want to have a target range with values between 80 and 130 mg/dl for "before meal" readings, so you will assign "Before Breakfast", "Before Lunch", "Before Dinner", and "Before Snack" labels to this range. So, when you log a BG reading with the label "Before Breakfast", it will be evaluated against this range, and displayed in red for low or yellow for high values outside this range.

So, BG readings are classified based on the labels assigned to them. Depending on assigned labels and your target ranges, the same BG reading value may get different highlights and different colors on your BG chart.

For example, BG reading 100 mg/dL, if assigned label "fasting", may get the yellow "above target range" highlight, and no highlight (displayed as a green dot on the BG chart) if BG reading 100 mg/dL is assigned label "1h after dinner".

Please review your target BG ranges and their labels carefully. Then, make sure to assign correct labels to your BG readings.

Automatic Label Assignment

By default, MyNetDiary automatically assigns "before meal" and "after meal" labels to BG readings you enter if you already logged the meal. If you don't want these automatic label assignments, you can turn off this option in App Settings.

Default Target Range

If some BG reading does not have any labels assigned, or labels assigned don't have target ranges, our app will use the "default" target range 60-120 mg/dL. If the reading is below 60 mg/dL, it will be highlighted in red. If the reading is below 60 mg/dL it will be highlighted in red, if above 120 mg/dL, it will be highlighted in yellow.

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