drahawkins_1973
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
I'm a research chemist and at work we have very expensive equipment to measure results. Even with really precise equipment it's impossible to get an absolute number to compare between equipment. I'm always astonished that science has evolved so much that we can even get a mobile, hand held piece of kit that can give us a semi-accurate number for blood levels given the simplicity of the test.
Also when measuring anything in the lab you would always take at least 5 measurements to make any conclusions statistically significant. So there will always be a standard deviation that will come from the measurement technique. And it would be impossible I think to take all the variables about which finger, temperature, age of lancet, cleanliness of skin etc into account to be so accurate.
So in short what I think I'm saying is that you can't take the absolute numbers from testing kits, but it is the best we have at giving us an idea of what our bs are doing (in a broad sense).
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Also when measuring anything in the lab you would always take at least 5 measurements to make any conclusions statistically significant. So there will always be a standard deviation that will come from the measurement technique. And it would be impossible I think to take all the variables about which finger, temperature, age of lancet, cleanliness of skin etc into account to be so accurate.
So in short what I think I'm saying is that you can't take the absolute numbers from testing kits, but it is the best we have at giving us an idea of what our bs are doing (in a broad sense).
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