Alternate-site testing is reliable in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, except at the forearm for hypoglycemia detection

Diabetes Care

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 710-711

  Lucidarme, Nadine ^a   Alberti, Corinne ^a   Zaccaria, Isabelle ^a   Claude, Emmanuel ^b   Tubiana Rufi, Nadia ^a  

^a HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^b Ypsomed   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RELIABILITY; SELF MONITORING;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FINGERS; FOREARM; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 14644406196     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.28.3.710     Document Type: Article

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