Article: Postprandial Blood Sugar: Tighter Diabetic Control.(Brief Article)

SAN FRANCISCO -- Regulating postprandial blood sugar levels provides tighter control of diabetes than does monitoring of only preprandial blood sugar levels, according to Dr. Nancy Bohannon.

The problem with testing only preprandial blood sugar levels is that these are probably the best levels of the day. Postprandial levels can go much higher and may signal less-than-desired control--but it's impossible to know that unless the levels are tested, noted Dr. Bohannon, who is in solo practice in San Francisco.

Postprandial blood sugar levels probably start creeping up years--or even decades--before preprandial levels do, starting the cascade of ...

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