BAKER: Monitoring blood sugar to manage diabetes

Diabetes, like hypertension, can be a mysterious disease for some people. Many people with diabetes are not symptomatic when their blood sugar is high; they may not feel different if their blood sugar level is higher than normal after a meal or if their A1C (a blood test that measures blood glucose over a prolonged period) is high, it may be difficult to determine a cause.

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Matt Baker is a pharmacist at Brookshire Brothers Pharmacy in Lufkin. Contact him at [email protected].