Diabetes study finds keeping blood sugar too steady may come at a price
Days spent ironing out every glucose wobble were not always the days people with diabetes felt best. When researchers matched continuous glucose monitor readings against daily well-being reports, people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes sometimes rated their quality of life higher after days when glucose moved around more, so long as it stayed inside safe limits. The team, led by Professor Dominic Ehrmann of the Research Institute Diabetes Academy Mergentheim in Germany, suggests that the effort and restriction required to keep levels perfectly steady can make everyday life harder to enjoy. The work is being presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes meeting in Milan, so the full details are still to come.
For you: If you track your glucose, worth knowing that a flatter line is not automatically a better day: staying in a safe range while actually living your life may matter more to how you feel.
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