Home blood glucose monitoring

Home monitoring of glucose and blood pressure.

Home monitoring of blood glucose and blood pressure levels can provide patients and physicians with valuable information in the management of diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Home monitoring allows patients to play an active role in their care and may improve treatment adherence and clinical outcomes. Glucose meters currently on the market produce results within 15 percent of serum blood glu...

Problems in home monitoring of blood glucose.

Two hundred and forty blood glucose readings were made on 5 Glucochek machines by 2 different operators. The results on all machines correlated poorly with equivalent results from an automatic glucose analyser with major discrepancies at all glucose concentrations. There was a wide gap in performance between the 2 operators. Analysis of variance suggested that errors were not only due to inter-...

[Intelligent interpretation of home monitoring blood glucose data].

Self monitoring of blood glucose is the cornerstone of diabetes management. However, the data obtained by self monitoring of blood glucose have rarely been used with the highest advantage. Few physicians routinely download data from memory-equipped glucose meters and analyse these data systematically at the time of patient visits. There is a need for improved methods for the display and analysi...

Home Blood Glucose Monitoring in Type 2 Diabetes

The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) (1) would not have beenpossiblewithout the advent of several technologies, including selfmonitoring of blood glucose (SMBG). After the results of that landmark studywere reported in 1993, SMBG was considered the standard of care for type 1 diabetic patients. The same was true for insulinrequiring type 2 diabetic patients after the report of th...

Neurosis induced by home monitoring of blood glucose concentrations.