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1.3      Optimize your diabetes with SiDiary

When you start tracking your blood glucose values with SiDiary, you will see that your parameters become better each day, because you are getting a directly graphical feedback upon entering each value. The charts and the calculated A1C parameter are helping you to control your diabetes. The graphical analysis is showing you a series of bad blood glucose levels immediately and makes you want to improve. You can not compare the SiDiary-calculated A1C to a lab value, but it offers you an indication for a better tendency of your metabolism-adjustment.

A lot of clinical trials have proved that, if you are using any blood glucose logbook (even a paper based one), it is always along with an improvement of your diabetes adjustments. An improvement of 1% of the A1C is possible. If you are watching your values with an electronic log, you will see recurrent mistakes and you can optimize even little things, since you are getting more and more sensitive in keeping your values straight.

Please notice: The readout of the meter alone will protocol your efforts, but will not show you the way to improvement. It will be helpful for sudden changes (Hyperglycemia/Hypoglycemia) to protocol also in SiDiary: What did you eat, how much did you inject, were there any additional physical pressures or did you had an additional illness. If you can identify the circumstances for a bad blood sugar level, you have the chance to make adjustments the next time in order to get better results.

 

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