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December 21, 2005

Do you test frequently enough?

Testing blood sugar levels is one of the most important things that people with diabetes can do to help manage their disease and live a healthy lifestyle. However, an Omnibus survey of 1,002 adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes indicates that almost 4 out of 10 do not test as often as their doctors recommend. - more

The top reasons for not testing:

1. Having to reprick (48%)


2. painful testing (43%)

It seems that having to reprick might be related to (2) and the results conveniently correspond to the marketed strengths of the ACCU-CHEK Aviva system.

Posted by Diabetologica at December 21, 2005 4:35 PM