At the Children with Diabetes convention at DisneyWorld in July Dr. Irl Hirsch announced that a new Accu-Chek device is the first good way that we have to measure glycemic variability, because it incorporates new low and high blood glucose indices. It’s a big step forward, but the product’s developer tells me that what it offers is something else.
Going beyond the simply measurement of our A1C level, glycemic variability is a measure of its quality. When we have a higher quality A1C, our...
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