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December 20, 2007

Those Terrible Post Meal Highs

Did you know that the dreaded post meal peak in blood glucose can do more damage than a sustained rise in blood sugar? New research suggests:

A causal relationship between hyperglycaemia and oxidative stress leading to vasoconstriction (a narrowing of the blood vessels) and thus high blood pressure. Acute glycaemic variability appear to play particular important roles in this mechanism.

Conveniently, the research also pointed to the benefits of the emerging technology of Continuous glucose monitoring to help self monitoring people with diabetes keep track of this post meal peak.

Posted by Diabetologica at December 20, 2007 9:08 PM