ABSTRACT Self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) systems have the potential to play an important role in the management of diabetes and in the reduction of risk of serious secondary clinical complications. ![]() Major studies have recommended the need to maintain near-normal blood glucose concentrations A physician looking at a container of urine, using his senses of sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste to make a diagnosis. 3,4 The passage of time has also led to a greater understanding of the management and treatment of diabetes mellitus. 2 Great progress has been achieved in the development of blood glucose meters and this continues to be an active field of study and research. 1 Consequently, the first blood glucose meters represent an important landmark technology, which influenced the extensive growth of pointof-care (POC) testing in the mid-1980s. ![]() The concept of dry chemistry would be elegantly developed later for the analysis of other analytes. It combined dry chemistry test strips (Dextrostix) with reflectance photometry to measure blood glucose. ![]() FOSTER History Committee, Institute of Biomedical Science, 12 Coldbath Square, London EC1R 5HL Accepted: 6 March 2012 Introduction It is over 40 years since Anton Clemens at the Ames Research Division, Miles Laboratories, in Elkhart, Indiana, USA, developed the first blood glucose meter. A history of blood glucose meters and their role in self-monitoring of diabetes mellitus S.
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