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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1483535" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>There's a good paper at the link below about the shocking complexities of measuring glucose. It's a good overview of cgm. Most of it is way beyond me, but the gist is that you're not measuring glucose in the same way that you'd weigh a physical object. You're measuring the current from electrons coming off of the breakdown of glucose caused by glucose oxidase on the strip or sensor. The scope for error in that is huge, so anyone who says, ooh, it's not the same as my meter fails to understand that there's a fair chance their meter might not be right anyway, and doesn't adjust for the fact that two separate but related things are being measured. There is nothing certain about measuring glucose, but libre sure as hell gives me more clues than strips do.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2903977/" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2903977/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1483535, member: 374531"] There's a good paper at the link below about the shocking complexities of measuring glucose. It's a good overview of cgm. Most of it is way beyond me, but the gist is that you're not measuring glucose in the same way that you'd weigh a physical object. You're measuring the current from electrons coming off of the breakdown of glucose caused by glucose oxidase on the strip or sensor. The scope for error in that is huge, so anyone who says, ooh, it's not the same as my meter fails to understand that there's a fair chance their meter might not be right anyway, and doesn't adjust for the fact that two separate but related things are being measured. There is nothing certain about measuring glucose, but libre sure as hell gives me more clues than strips do. [URL]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2903977/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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