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Question: From India:
What is the difference between blood sugars readings taken from whole blood or venous, plasma, and capillary samples?
Answer:
Plasma glucose is approximately 15% higher than readings from other blood samples.
DTQ-20030727081214B
Original posting 11 Aug 2003
Posted to Blood Tests and Insulin Injections
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Last Updated: Sun Jan 15 12:11:27 2006
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