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Simple Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Freely Moving Mice
Published on: February 24, 2023
[Capillary blood glucose self-monitoring]
1Servicio de Endocrinologia y Nutrición, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona.
Abstract:
Diabetes Milletus is a disease which has a major impact in our society due to the number of people who suffer this disease; due to the multiple complications, both chronic and acute, which it can cause; due to the repercussions it causes among family and relatives,... Therefore, providing patients a good diabetic educational program which improves metabolic control and offers help in a patient's environment becomes very necessary; at the same time, it is essential to provide patients information about new techniques. In this article, the author analyzes everything related to capillary glycemia self control: definition, purpose, description, objective, necessary material, procedure, error in the results derived from this technique and the recommended frequency for at home self analysis.
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