Via practica 6/2012

Self-monitoring of diabetic patients – an important part of daily management of the disease

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease requiring a continuous complex care (care management focusing not only on glycemic control), requiring continual education and support in the prevention of acute diabetic complications and reducing of the devastating chronic microvascular and macrovascular complications. An important part of modern continual care for diabetics is the implementation of self-monitoring. The term self-monitoring (self-control), understood in the narrow sense – control glucose levels, in the broader sense – control of glycosuria, ketonuria or measuring and monitoring of body weight and blood pressure. We currently have available two primary techniques for control glycemic compensation: self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG – self-monitoring of blood glucose) or continuous glucose monitoring (CGM).

Keywords: self-monitoring blood glucose, continual glucose monitoring.