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c/t2dglp1·submitted 23 days ago by u/camila_vasquez

help me understand CGM, I have read the wiki twice

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking T2D against eGFR for 11 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here. Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no…

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u/meal_prep_mira17 points·22 days ago

Dead space in the needle hub holds a small but non-trivial volume. On low-volume draws that can be several units.

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u/katrin_girard5 points·22 days ago·edited

A1c, CGM, stacking with metformin

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u/camila_vasquezOP3 points·22 days ago

My version of this: I was so worried about the injection that I put it off for eleven days. The injection is the easiest part.

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u/kaia_cabrera6 points·22 days ago

Not to be pedantic but A1c and CGM are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/ice_pack_auditcold chain1 point·21 days ago

What are you comparing it against though?

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