title: Home glucose monitoring for insulin-dependent diabetics: preliminary results.
abstract: Home glucose monitoring is one of several new and aggressive approaches to improving blood glucose homeostasis in the insulin-deficient diabetic. The advent of a successful long-term pancreatic transplant or a reliable miniaturized artificial pancreas may, soon, supercede it as a treatment modality, but for the time it would appear that home glucose monitoring is a viable alternative to the more conventional and less successful methods of control and should at least be considered for use in patients with insulin-deficient diabetes mellitus.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D002648:Child; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000097:blood* / Q000188:drug therapy; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D007328:Insulin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011934:Reagent Strips
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D007328:Insulin; D011934:Reagent Strips