I’m here to advocate the Advocate.
Specifically, I am delighted with the talking version of the Advocate Duo meter. It tests blood glucose and blood pressure in a tiny and attractive – and inexpensive – little device.
This is the second meter in just a few months that will give us both of these key tests. In June I reviewed the Duo-Care that GenExel-Sein had just introduced as the first combined blood glucose and wrist blood pressure monitor.
But there are two things about the Duo-Care...
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