Healthcare Triage: Type 2 Diabetes and Daily Blood Sugar Monitoring

Research is telling us that those with Type 2 diabetes don’t need to be testing for blood glucose levels at home and that doing so is a waste of money and a strain on the health care system.

This episode was adapted from a column I wrote for The Upshot. Links to sources can be found there.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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