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LOG to I/U

by sunspot, Nov 14, 2007 09:13AM
Would someone kindly convert a log number to IU? I’m not much on the conversion tables.
See the 11/8 post titled “Soon starting pegetron”

The post has 8.10 E+5 as VL.
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by CockSparrow, Nov 14, 2007 02:29PM
To: Sunspot
I dont really understand your Post actually the vl part, so iam guessing here.
Below is how you convert your VL into logs manually.

To calculate your Viral Load in Logs
Run Calculator on your PC
View Scientific
Enter VL number
Click the Log button

And there it is, your VL in logs.

To convert the figure in the other direction you need to do ten to the power of the figure.
With calculator it goes like this:-

Enter 10
Click X^Y
Enter number 8.10
Click =
Result comes back 125892541 or so!

This is a little high so my guess is 8.10 isnt your VL in logs but not sure.

Cause the easy way is to use logdrop.exe from
http://www.theboltons.plus.com/Calculator.html

Hope this helps
CS

by mremeet, Nov 14, 2007 02:51PM
To: sunspot
Two things: first is the number you provided is not in log form, it's in scientific notation. "8.10 E+5" means 8.10 X 100,000 which is equal to 810,000. (please not that americans use the comma in the number above to separate the number into "thousands" - in europe the comma is commonly used as a decimal place). Secondly, "IU/ml" is a unit that is commonly used to denote viral load. It means you have x amount of "international units" per milliliter of blood. Kinda like having a certain number of jellybeans in a gallon jar, except the jellybeans are the virus and the gallon jar is a milliliter (a milliliter is about 20 drops of liquid). There are several different units which can be used to describe viral load, but in recent years most everyone (globally) has swtiched over to IU/ml. Your lab results are probably in IU/ml too. So the number above is probably your viralload in IU/ml, and so your VL is probably = 810,000 IU/ml   If you read off what it says verbatim on the report we can be more certain, but that's probably it.

by sunspot, Nov 15, 2007 07:27AM
To: all
Thank you for your answers. I'll copy them to my hard drive.
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