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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