Disease relevance of Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring

• In this study, intensified insulin injection therapy (including blood glucose self-monitoring and multiple insulin injections) based upon a 5-day inpatient group teaching programme was evaluated in Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus in the centralised health care system of Bucharest [1].
• Transmission of hepatitis B infection during home blood glucose monitoring [2].
• OBJECTIVE: To determine whether home blood glucose monitoring as used by non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients followed in primary care nonresearch clinics improves glycemic control or reduces utilization of the outpatient laboratory [3].
• Over 90% frequently reported discussing the following topics with clients: home blood glucose monitoring, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, insulin use, and diet [4].
• A fatal case of disseminated zygomycosis associated with the use of blood glucose self-monitoring equipment [5].

Psychiatry related information on Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring

• The problem solving capacity of home blood glucose monitoring in unstable diabetes is illustrated [6].
• There was a trend toward increased physical activity in the intervention group as compared to that of the control group (p = .11) and some evidence (nonsignificant) of an increase in blood glucose self-monitoring in the intervention participants but not the control participants [7].

High impact information on Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring

• Economic realities of home blood glucose monitoring [8].
• Among 11 IDD treated intensively with home blood glucose monitoring and pumped subcutaneous insulin or three or more injections daily, hemoglobin A1C fell dramatically (10.4 +/- 0.7% to 7.5 +/- 0.2%) and anterior chamber fluorescein concentration decreased (73.9 +/- 7.7 to 49.5 +/- 5.3 ng/ml) [9].
• Two different types of blood glucose self-monitoring device, designed for use by diabetics (Accu-Chek Advantage* and Accu-Chek III*), were evaluated for the purpose of monitoring glucose concentration in tissue culture media [10].
• It is concluded that the SD provides an accurate and easily available estimate of blood-glucose variability in IDDM patients practising home blood-glucose monitoring [11].
• We examined the relationships between 4 glycated protein assays and home blood glucose monitoring (HBGM) in 26 children with poorly-controlled insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) during a period of improved management [12].

Biological context of Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring

• Patients were asked to do home blood glucose monitoring, decrease caloric intake, increase exercise, and if they were taking insulin, to adjust the dose to attain approximate euglycemia and to stabilize food and exercise patterns [13].
• Feasibility and effects of a diabetes type II protocol with blood glucose self-monitoring in general practice [14].
• Epidemiology and determinants of blood glucose self-monitoring in clinical practice [15].
• Certainly, the advent of simple techniques for home blood glucose monitoring is a major step forward in the effort to improve the outcome of diabetes complicated pregnancies [16].
• Our present computerised system for home blood glucose monitoring has shown that for pre-existing diabetes patients but not gestational diabetic patients, glycaemic control in the second and third trimester influences birth weight [17].

Associations of Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring with chemical compounds

• Home blood glucose monitoring, glycosylated hemoglobin and fructosamine: their relationships in diabetic patients with and without residual C-peptide secretion [18].

Gene context of Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring

• Home blood glucose monitoring. Impact on lifestyle and diabetes control [19].
• Optimal diabetes control, as gauged by home blood glucose monitoring and glycosylated haemoglobin levels or, in the case of type II diabetics, fasting blood glucose levels, prevents the acute symptoms of diabetes mellitus as well as coma and in addition appears to minimise the risk of vascular complications [20].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring

• Forty-two per cent of the patients attending DOCs and 14% of those cared for by GPs practised blood glucose self-monitoring; similarly, insulin therapy self-management was performed by 50% and 19% of the patients attending DOCs and GPs, respectively [21].
• A major part of managing GDM involves educating the patient about diet, exercise, blood glucose self-monitoring, and insulin self-administration [22].
• Randomized controlled trials comparing HbA1c reduction in therapies with and without blood glucose self-monitoring among adult, non-insulin-treated type 2 diabetes patients were selected [23].
• Accuracy of four methods of home blood glucose monitoring in hemodialysis patients [24].

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