How to build HealthKit HKUnit for mmol / L (millimoles per liter) for blood glucose values?
Blood glucose values have been added in Health in iOS 8.2: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203113
How to build HealthKit HKUnit for mmol / L (millimoles per liter) for blood glucose values?
The following exceptions are: Application terminated due to an unmapped 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'Unable to parse the factorization string ...
HKUnit *mmolPerL = [HKUnit unitFromString:@"mmol<molar mass>/L"];
HKUnit *mmolPerL = [HKUnit unitFromString:@"mmol/L"];
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It can be confirmed that the examples given do not work (every permutation) the alternate block mg/dL
does.
To summarize, both suggested approaches work with similar (with the approach suggested by @cbartel, the constant is actually rounded and not different) results regarding the structure of the resulting HKUnit:
Printing description of mmolPerL->_baseUnits->_factors:
NSMapTable {
[6] mmol<180.15588> -> 1
[7] L -> -1
}
I would use a shorter form using the provided constant:
HKUnit *mmolPerL = [HKUnit unitFromString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"mmol<%f>/L",HKUnitMolarMassBloodGlucose]];
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The "molar mass" passed to the HKUnitFromString: must be a decimal value representing the molar mass of the substance ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molar_mass ). Blood glucose has a molar mass of ~ 180,156 (see HKUnitMolarMassBloodGlucose in HKUnit.h for a more precise value). To build this using single lines, you would like to use:
HKUnit * mmolPerL = [HKUnit unitFromString: @ "mmol <180,156> / L"];
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In Swift 4:
let bloodGlucoseMgDlUnit = HKUnit.gramUnit(with: .milli).unitDivided(by: HKUnit.literUnit(with: .deci))
let bloodGlucoseMMolLUnit = HKUnit.moleUnit(with: .milli, molarMass: HKUnitMolarMassBloodGlucose).unitDivided(by: HKUnit.liter())
let mgdlValue = sample.quantity.doubleValue(for: bloodGlucoseMgDlUnit)
let mmollValue = sample.quantity.doubleValue(for: bloodGlucoseMMolLUnit)
Example:
81.0 mg/dL, 4.4961063718806 mmol/L 83.0 mg/dL, 4.6071213440258 mmol/L
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