Monitoring

First of all, how important is your glucose control early in your diabetes? The short answer is very. Is it easy? Not really.

As someone living with diabetes, we invariably end up needing to schedule a host of diabetes monitoring tests.

Checking your A1C as well as your blood glucose levels are things you’ll do when you have diabetes.

Most recently you may have heard that performing blood sugar (glucose) monitoring is a waste of money. It is important to understand that this is not a correct statement for most people with diabetes.

My last blog entry addressed the importance of using home blood glucose monitoring strategically.

Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has been around for 40 years.

High blood pressure – also called hypertension – increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. It’s important to keep blood pressure within diabetes management targets.