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What are Normal Glucose Levels?

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

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People with diabetes need to balance the dose of insulin or hypoglycemic medication and food intake. To find out if your blood glucose is at normal levels, they must measure and meet daily variation patterns of glycemia.

For this purpose, different systems have been developed to measure blood glucose. All these devices currently require a person to extract a drop of blood through a finger prick and placed in a reagent or sensor that will analyze it, several times a day. Many times the changes are such that the person does not know whether the levels present are within normal limits.

It is important to note that variations in blood glucose are based on several factors such as age, type of diabetes, the years you have with the disease, other illnesses, lifestyle. As an example, if you are diabetic, we can write down a list of values to achieve basic objectives.

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