title: Blood glucose. The diabetes math of too high, too low, and just right.
abstract: Medicine is full of numbers that describe the health of a human body. Most basically, there are numbers like body temperature, an indication of fever and infection, and blood pressure, a measure of the circulatory system's health. The mathematics of medicine is particularly crucial when it comes to diabetes. If you regularly test your blood glucose with a meter, you're familiar with some of the most important numbers for managing this condition. There are also different types of laboratory tests for blood glucose, each with its own numerical language. Here's how they all add up.
authors.forename: Erika
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gebel
mesh_terms: D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000097:blood*; D005951:Glucose Tolerance Test; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin