Why Is Consistent Blood Glucose Monitoring Important?
It is important to test your blood glucose at various times of the day, especially before and after meals. Testing before and after meals shows how the food you eat, your level of activity, and your medicine affect your blood glucose. Testing your blood glucose level after meals also is important because some foods, such as those high in carbohydrates, can cause a sudden rise in glucose. Knowing these values gives you and your health care provider valuable information to make adjustments, if necessary, to your care plan. Your health care provider will help you determine the desired range for your blood glucose levels for both before and after meals. Recent studies have shown that testing your blood glucose after meals, also called postprandial testing, is important because high blood glucose levels after meals may increase the risk of developing long-term complications of diabetes. For example, these studies also suggest that there may be a link between high postprandial (after-meal) g
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