Other medications your doctor might prescribe in addition to diabetes medications include blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering medications, as well as low-dose aspirin, to help prevent heart and blood vessel disease.
Diabetes Management
Managing high blood sugar with type 1 diabetes
High blood sugar, also called hyperglycemia, can happen when the body does not have enough insulin or cannot use the body’s insulin.
Diabetes management: how are we doing in Canada?
Management of blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure are important for people with diabetes. How do Canadians rate with respect to these parameters? Read this article to learn more about the state of diabetes management in Canada.
Share your blood glucose diary with your health care team
You can keep in touch with your healthcare professional with the CONTOUR® Diabetes App. If you use the CONTOUR®NEXT ONE meter, you can quickly send a PDF copy of your results to your healthcare professional to aid in a remote consultation, and help you keep your diabetes management on track.
Carbohydrates are important in diabetes management
Everybody – including people with diabetes – needs to include foods that contain carbohydrate in their diet, because they are one of the body’s main sources of energy.
Life expectancy and diabetes: bad news, good news
Lifestyle choices or health behaviours, as they are called now, can make a significant difference to life expectancy for all of us, but even more so for a person living with diabetes.
