By Aaron Allen, The Seattle Medium

A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Ian de Boer at the University of Washington School of Medicine has uncovered major discrepancies between routine blood sugar tests and real-time glucose levels in patients undergoing dialysis. Using continuous glucose monitors, researchers identified frequent and sometimes severe episodes of both high and low blood sugar that standard lab tests failed to detect.

“This was sort of a first-look study. We’re really trying to see what’s going on when we look at this population with this new continuous glucose monitoring technology and what we found was quite surprising,” said Dr. de Boer, a nephrologist and professor at the UW School of Medicine. “We found in particular a lot of really high blood sugars, also some low ones.

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