Diabetes monitoring can not rely on “Meter”
The lack of national standards, the biggest error “allowed” 15%; same drop of blood, in two different brands of blood glucose measurement instrument, the largest numerical difference of 0.9 (in mmol / L, the same below), while blood glucose meter and hospitals Biochemical analyzer, a maximum difference of 1.2. This is a reporter recently in Aceh three Jiadeng hospital to see the scenes.
China is a big country diabetes, the incidence has been the total number of over 40 million, and an upward trend. In recent years, the advent of micro-Meter, for patients with disease control and guidance medication has brought great convenience, and even many families rely entirely on it, and not to go to the hospital regularly review blood sugar. Although Meter is small in size, easy to use, less blood, the advantages of rapid testing, but it also has many deficiencies.