The NHS is wasting more than £100m a year by helping people with diabetes to monitor their condition at home because it only serves to make them anxious, researchers will say today. For 10 years, doctors have argued over whether blood-glucose monitoring at home is useful for people with type 2 diabetes, the form of the disease often linked to obesity, which is soaring in the UK.
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Self-testing sugar levels could harm diabetics - The Telegraph 18th April 2008
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Diabetes self-tests 'no benefit' - BBC Health News 18th April 2008
Home diabetes kits waste £100m a year, says research - The Guardian 18th April 2008
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