About 73 percent of adults with diabetes also have hypertension, commonly known as high blood pressure (For more information, see this factsheet from the National Institutes of Health). So why haven’t the medical device manufacturers made something that can test our blood glucose and blood pressure in the same meter?
Now, a company new to the American market has done just that. GenExel-Sein, headquartered in South Korea, has just introduced the first combined blood glucose and wrist blood...
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