The assessment of the difference of capillary blood glucose level and venous glucose level measured by glucometer devices

Abstract

Today, increasing the prevalence of diabetes mellitus is an important problem in glucose developing country’s Health and the blood glucose monitoring predicts of in sufficient blood glucose monitoring side effects. The glucometer devices are small and used simply so they are used more than the other methods for home blood glucose monitoring. As the variety of the glucometer devices are increasing from day to day. In this study, we assess the difference of capillary glucose level and venous glucose level measured by three glucometer devices; Glucotrend 2, GlucoMen, GlucoCare. 100 diabetic patients took part in this study. The results of 100 patients study, showed that the venous blood glucose level measured by these devices with compare of standard method were 2.14% in GlucoCare, 5.3% in Glucotrend 2 and 17.1% in GlucoMen more than the standard level. The GlucoCare and Glucotrend 2, results had no difference with the standard method and the blood glucose levels measured with these two devices were similar. Otherwise the GlucoMen results are more similar to standard method, it has the least confident. The GlucoCare had the least deference of the mean venous glucose level with the standard method and the most similarity between the capillary glucose level and venous glucose level measured by these devices were seen in Glucotrend 2.