Self-monitoring of blood glucose among type-2 diabetes patients in Malaysia

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major and growinghealth problem, affecting 1.7 million individuals inMalaysia, and in 1996, more than 98% DM was oftype-2. Malaysia is predicted to have 2 times morediabetes than it has today by the year 2010 [1, 2].Treatment and care of diabetic patients are importantto prevent acute complications and to reduce the riskof death due to diabetes complications.Monitoring of the glucose levels is a criticalcomponent of...