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You can do it diabetes

The days of routine glucose testing with lancets, test strips and blood are over. Testing won’t hold you back. Scan the sensor with the reader any time for results in a second, even through your clothes 3. Each scan gives your current glucose reading, a view of the last 8 hours and shows which way… Read More: You can do it diabetes »

What you need to know about COVID-19 if you have diabetes

Preliminary data from China suggest that people with diabetes and other preexisting conditions are more likely to experience serious complications and death from COVID-19 than people without diabetes and other conditions. But COVID-19 and the coronavirus that causes it are new, and researchers are still investigating how they impact immunity. We also know that if… Read More: What you need to know about COVID-19 if you have… »

Want to Defeat Coronavirus? Address Diabetes and Hypertension

While the World Health Organization has put the death rate from novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at 3.4%, a study in Nature Medicine put it much lower, at 1.4%. The fact is, with many cases going unreported and untested, mild and asymptomatic cases may not be included in official COVID-19 death rate figures, which could skew the… Read More: Want to Defeat Coronavirus? Address Diabetes and Hypertension »