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Article: Improving blood glucose monitoring for diabetes.
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- May 1, 1990
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Improving Blood Glucose Monitoring For Diabetes
When most people sit down for lunch, the only guidance they seek is from the menu. But for an estimated 1 million Americans who are diagnosed with Type I diabetes mellitus, lunch--or any other meal--starts with a test using a portable device called the blood glucose meter.
Self-monitoring of blood glucose (a sugar) is called SMBG for short. Most insulin-dependent diabetics carry out SMBG four to seven times a day, as it is crucial to treatment of the potentially degenerative disease of diabetes. Properly executed, SMBG enables the users to modify the type of food they eat, vary the amount and time of ...