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Originally Posted by Nathans_Dad
The story still isn't making sense. Most hospitals today use Troponin I. There is also a Troponin T test but I don't think this is used a much, at least not around where I work.
Anyhow, a normal Troponin level is usually less than 0.04 ng/ml. I suppose your hospital might be using a different unit scale but for you to have a troponin level of 45 and be told this was equivocal just seems odd. I would go over things with your cardiologist, I'm wondering if you aren't misplacing a decimal point somewhere...
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Up here we do use a different scale for measuring sugar in diabetes. Maybe they use a different scale for Troponin levels? I don't know but I will ask. I can find no reference to a different scale online though. We use the same scale as in the UK for diabetes. Example 5.6 is considered "normal" and that converts to "100" in the US scale. The night of my MI my BS was 25. That converts to 450 on the US scale. The ER Dr. said that was normal to happen. Your body senses it is in trouble and dumps as much sugar (energy) into the system as it can to help out. It was reduced back to normal levels over two days via insulin injections.