Hey! Which units would you prefer?
For height/weight, I'd assume meters and kg?
When you get your cholesterol measurements, do use mg/dL, mmol/L, or something else? What about blood pressure?
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Obviously metric, since that's what most of the world uses abd you're cutting yourself from a large chunk of your potential audience. The cholesterol measures are already metric.
The site is going to be limited to the US anyway. The data is calculated from a US population for US lifestyles. And the racial information is US-centric. Does 'Asian' mean Korean, Indian, or Palestinian? Is an African African-American? Even if they're Moroccan? The medical term for that genotype is 'negro', but that word has far too much baggage to be used with a primarily US audience.
Hello,
Ideally, there should be an ability to switch. Regarding height and weigh - its metric meters and kilograms. Not sure about others.
Thanks.
It's pretty amusing that you're complaining about the units (and wanting non-American units is fair) but don't actually know what units you want.
And making the units even more alien doesn't help when you have to look them up and after an exhausting search find out they are imperial/metric and have to convert further.
Well I certainly know one of two bits of information this app can use to make its guess but I still can't use it because.. well.. you know. Defeats the purpose altogether.
Meters and kilos. My blood analysis data is in g/L (but the conversion is easy).
I live in the UK, I think of my height in feet and inches and my weight in Kilograms. Blood pressure is in mmHg while cholesterol is in mmol/L.
cm and kg