We subscribe to the HONcode principles of the Health On the Net Foundation.
Monitoring is important because monitoring enables the person to get lower blood sugars.
You can't improve your sugar control unless you know what the sugar level is, and we know that if we can get lower blood sugars and better control, we will have fewer long-term complications of diabetes. This was a big debate for the first 70 years of insulin's existence. Insulin began being used in the early 1920s, and it wasn't until 1993 that we had proof that using insulin led to fewer complications. We've had two very big studies, one called the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial, the other called the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study. Both of those studies show that with better control of the sugar level, we have dramatically decreased incidences of the complications.