By
WilD on
February 2, 2013
Welcome back to our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine!
In case you were expecting on this fine Feb. 2 morning to open your browser and see a certain friendly groundhog emerging from a burrow to predict this winter season, no dice. No Punxsutawney Phil here.
Instead, what you get is veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois, forecasting some real down-to-earth D-advice on out-of-range blood sugars…
With a Happy Groundhog Day to y’all,…
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By
AmyT on
November 13, 2012
At last week’s Diabetes Technology Society Meeting in Bethesda, MD, Dexcom’s VP of Science & Technology Tom Peyser presented a brand new metric for glycemic variability based on CGM data that may be much more useful and easier to understand than Standard Deviation.
“Glycemic variability” is of course a fancy name for how out-of-control your blood sugar levels are. Swinging between severe ups and downs all the time (high variability) puts you at risk for…
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Whose endo regularly suggests you get a GlycoMark test? Wait, better question: who has the slightest idea what constitutes “in range” for the GlycoMark test, or what the heck you’re supposed to do with the results?
Yeah, I thought so… me neither.
We’ve mentioned GlycoMark a few times here at the ‘Mine, but when it recently came up in conversation, our team basically all looked at each other and shrugged. This year’s ADA Conference seemed…
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Welcome to Round 2 of my new blast-from-the-past series here at DiabetesMine. Once again, I note how little things have changed in four years! This post originally appeared exactly four years ago to the day, but if I didn’t tell you that, you might not notice. That’s because using the standard deviation for evaluating glucose results remains a much-discussed but not universally accepted method. Enjoy…
Standard Deviation Buzz
There seems to be a lot of…
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