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2. What is a continuous glucose monitor? - AOL

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   The first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor just got cleared by the FDA. ... without having to prick your finger for a blood test. The device is worn on either the arm or the abdomen ...

3. These Glucose Meters and Monitors Make Diabetes ... - AOL

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   The company claims that you don’t need to prick your finger—it’s that accurate. But after two years of use, I prefer to confirm super high or very low blood glucose with a finger prick to ...

4. Continuous glucose monitor - Wikipedia

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   People with Type 2 diabetes should be offered flash glucose monitoring or CGM if they use insulin twice daily or more, are otherwise advised to finger-prick eight times a day, have recurrent or severe hypoglycemia, have impaired hypoglycemia awareness, or cannot monitor their own blood sugar levels but they or a caretaker could use a scanning ...

5. What You Need to Know Before Buying an At-Home Glucose Monitor

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   For people with prediabetes, type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes, monitoring blood glucose levels is a 24/7 operation. If blood glucose drops too low or jumps too high, that can put a person at ...

6. Blood glucose monitoring - Wikipedia

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   Blood glucose monitoring is the use of a glucose meter for testing the concentration of glucose in the blood . Particularly important in diabetes management , a blood glucose test is typically performed by piercing the skin (typically, via fingerstick ) to draw blood, then applying the blood to a chemically active disposable 'test-strip'.

7. Glucose meter - Wikipedia

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   Glucose vs. plasma glucose: Glucose levels in plasma (one of the components of blood) are higher than glucose measurements in whole blood; the difference is about 11% when the hematocrit is normal. This is important because home blood glucose meters measure the glucose in whole blood while most lab tests measure the glucose in plasma.