Millions of low-risk people with diabetes may be testing their blood sugar too often
Monday, December 10, 2018 - 15:40
in Health & Medicine
For people with Type 2 diabetes, testing blood sugar levels becomes part of everyday life. But a new study suggests that some of them test more often than they need to. Fourteen percent of people with Type 2 diabetes who don't require insulin are buying enough test strips to test their blood sugar two or more times a day -- when they don't need to test nearly that frequently according to medical guidelines.