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Friday, October, 23, 2009

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Testing Cholesterol and Glucose

By David Mendosa Health Expert

My recent review of the Duo-Care for testing both blood pressure and blood glucose got me thinking.

I wasn’t thrilled with that combination. But many of us with diabetes have high cholesterol. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a meter that tests both blood glucose and cholesterol?

We can, of course, get our cholesterol levels checked at a lab or a doctor’s office. But we could check these levels much more often and conveniently if we do the tests at home.

We can do that with a hand-held ...

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