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#727 Bold Beginnings: Target Range

Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

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Is This a Sliding Scale?

If your blood sugars in this range take this many units of insulin, right? Where this gives a little bit more precision because that formula gives you a way to calculate a dose Just for correction insulin when blood sugar is high so they may they will give you a target blood sugar. So if they told you to target 150 great, you're gonna subtract your current 250 blood sugar And then you're gonna take away the 150 target which leaves you 100 right But that number looks odd until you factor in what they've given you and it's called a correction factor.

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