Diabetes Blood Glucose Management

The year is 1978. The global population reaches 4.4 billion, and in the United States, 5.2 million people have diabetes. For around $400 ($1,500 in today’s dollars), those 5.2 million Americans with diabetes can, for the first time ever, buy a home blood glucose meter… Read More “Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring”

To measure the concentration of glucose in your blood, you put a strip in the meter, poke a hole in your finger to get a sample of blood, touch the tip of the test strip to the drop of blood, and wait for the result. It sounds pretty straightforward. But, of course, the devil is in the details… Read More “Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring: Part 2”

Isolated blood glucose checks are next to meaningless; they don’t tell you anything about how you got to where you are. “Smart” monitoring, on the other hand, does, because it follows a pattern… Read More “Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring: Part 3”