Is Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose Appropriate for All Type 2 Diabetic Patients? The Fremantle Diabetes Study
Response to Kolb et al.
- Wendy A. Davis, PHD,
- David G. Bruce, MD and
- Timothy M.E. Davis, D PHIL
- From the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Fremantle Hospital, University of Western Australia, Fremantle, Australia
- Address correspondence to Dr. W.A. Davis, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Fremantle Hospital, P.O. Box 480, Fremantle, Western Australia 6959. E-mail: wdavis{at}cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Despite the negative results of our community-based study of the link between self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) and glycemia (1), Kolb et al. (2) commented on the overall concordance of our study and several other observational studies. They also suggest that we might have missed a positive impact of SMBG since new users in our cohort were not differentiated from either prevalent users or never users.
In our prospectively followed 531 type 2 diabetic patients (1), 92 who …
