Other monitoring

When it’s time to check in with your diabetes healthcare team, make sure you come prepared! Whether it’s a daily blood sugar check, or an annual eye examination, regular testing is a very important part of your diabetes management.

As someone living with diabetes, we invariably end up needing to schedule a host of diabetes monitoring tests.

High blood pressure – also called hypertension – increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. It’s important to keep blood pressure within diabetes management targets.

Good diabetes care that helps the person living with diabetes avoid complications, involves regular “diabetes – focused” visits with their family doctor, nurse practitioner or diabetes specialist.