High Glucose Meter Reading
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials are warning people with diabetes who take the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drug Orencia or who undergo dialysis that these treatments may interfere with the readings on a type of glucose meter. FDA researchers have found that testing strips that use the technology known as GDH-PQQ (glucose dehydrogenase pyrroloquinoline quinone) will react to certain non-glucose sugars and produce a falsely high blood sugar reading. Both the RA drug Orencia and...
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