Blood glucose meter research
Looking for a blood glucose meter.
Best 10 glucometers as lsorted by Men’s health
http://www.menshealth.com/spotlight/diabetes/top-blood-glucose-meters.php
It looks like not all blood sugar meters are equally accurate. List of a bunch of meters on this page.
http://www.diabetesdaily.com/voices/2013/07/blood-glucose-meter-accuracy-comparison-chart/
Same data sorted by total accuracy from lowest to highest (total accuracy = the sum of all the entries for each unit)
(table at the bottom of post)
Some recommendations for the Accu-Chek Active since it’s accurate and test strips are least expensive.
Excellent article on the technical challenges of getting accurate readings from glucometers:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769957/
| Meter | Within 15% | Within 10% | Within 5% | Within 15% | Within 10% | Within 5% |
| Under 100 mg | Under 100 mg | Under 100 mg | Over 100 mg | Over 100 mg | Over 100 mg | |
| SeniorLine GM210 | 15% | 0% | 0% | 79% | 55% | 29% |
| Glucohexal II | 50% | 21% | 7% | 80% | 64% | 32% |
| GlucoRx (TD-4230) | 83% | 41% | 14% | 65% | 40% | 14% |
| Wellion CALLA Light | 68% | 33% | 13% | 89% | 73% | 52% |
| GlucoSmart Swing | 84% | 53% | 15% | 94% | 67% | 33% |
| Futura Monometer | 90% | 68% | 27% | 79% | 59% | 26% |
| IME-DC Fidelity | 72% | 43% | 18% | 94% | 85% | 48% |
| Biocheck TD-4225 | 76% | 52% | 22% | 97% | 80% | 49% |
| Element | 90% | 79% | 48% | 83% | 64% | 30% |
| GlucoTel | 89% | 70% | 33% | 92% | 72% | 41% |
| Bayer Contour usb | 90% | 69% | 45% | 91% | 68% | 34% |
| smartLAB genie | 84% | 52% | 23% | 98% | 87% | 57% |
| iDia | 96% | 80% | 47% | 90% | 71% | 40% |
| GlucoCheck Classic | 97% | 84% | 55% | 85% | 66% | 38% |
| Beurer GL32 | 85% | 62% | 40% | 99% | 91% | 56% |
| iBGStar | 96% | 90% | 52% | 90% | 72% | 35% |
| WaveSense Jazz | 100% | 75% | 38% | 95% | 80% | 47% |
| GlucoCheck XL | 97% | 92% | 58% | 88% | 65% | 40% |
| Pura | 100% | 95% | 48% | 100% | 74% | 30% |
| GlucoCheck Comfort | 96% | 86% | 56% | 95% | 74% | 41% |
| iXell OLED | 97% | 85% | 52% | 97% | 79% | 39% |
| smartLAB global | 91% | 85% | 57% | 93% | 79% | 48% |
| Beurer GL40 | 98% | 90% | 52% | 95% | 78% | 42% |
| Omnitest 3 | 94% | 86% | 64% | 91% | 79% | 48% |
| iXell | 100% | 98% | 68% | 89% | 75% | 38% |
| OneTouch Verio | 97% | 78% | 40% | 100% | 95% | 64% |
| microdot+ | 98% | 95% | 62% | 94% | 83% | 43% |
| Accu-Chek Compact Plus | 100% | 86% | 27% | 100% | 94% | 69% |
| Gluco-test Plus+ TD-4230 | 96% | 94% | 76% | 95% | 79% | 42% |
| OneTouch VITA | 98% | 93% | 72% | 99% | 87% | 50% |
| BGStar | 98% | 92% | 80% | 97% | 87% | 62% |
| Accu-Chek Performa | 100% | 95% | 72% | 99% | 94% | 68% |
| Accu-Chek Mobile (maltose independent) | 100% | 98% | 71% | 100% | 94% | 66% |
| Accu-Chek Performa | 98% | 97% | 78% | 98% | 92% | 66% |
| Accu-Chek Aviva | 100% | 97% | 80% | 99% | 91% | 64% |
| Accu-Chek Mobile (maltose dependent) | 98% | 98% | 73% | 100% | 96% | 66% |
| Accu-Chek Nano | 100% | 96% | 80% | 99% | 95% | 65% |
| Accu-Chek Performa Nano | 100% | 98% | 87% | 100% | 96% | 64% |
| Accu-Chek Active | 100% | 100% | 72% | 100% | 100% | 79% |
| Accu-Chek Go | 100% | 100% | 94% | 100% | 96% | 79% |
| FreeStyle Lite | 100% | 100% | 93% | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| FreeStyle Freedom Lite | 100% | 100% | 98% | 100% | 98% | 90% |