A tale of two compartments: interstitial versus blood glucose monitoring

Eda Cengiz1, William V Tamborlane

  • 1Section of Pediatric Endocrinology and Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. Eda.Cengiz@yale.edu

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