Glucose monitoring after fruit peeling: Pseudohyperglycemia when neglecting hand washing before fingertip blood sampling: Wash your hands with tap water before you check blood glucose level

Diabetes Care

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 596-597

  Hirose, Takahisa ^a   Mita, Tomoya ^a   Fujitani, Yoshio ^a   Kawamori, Ryuzo ^a   Watada, Hirotaka ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GLUCOSE; TAP WATER;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAPILLARY BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINGER; FRUIT PEELING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GRAPEFRUIT; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERGLYCEMIA; KIWIFRUIT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORANGE (FRUIT); PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PSEUDOHYPERGLYCEMIA; VOLUNTEER;

BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; FINGERS; FRUIT; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA;

EID: 79956160504     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc10-1705     Document Type: Article

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