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Understanding blood sugar target ranges to better manage your diabetes
As a person with diabetes, you may or may not know what your target ranges should be for your blood sugars first thing in the morning, before meals, after meals, or at bedtime.

You may or may not understand what blood sugar ranges are for people without diabetes.

Fasting blood sugar more than 12 hours

You may or may not understand how your A1C correlates with your target ranges.

How do you get a clear picture of what is going on with your blood sugar, and how it could be affecting your health?

In this article, we will look at what recommended blood sugar target ranges are for people without diabetes.

We will look at target ranges for different times of the day for people with diabetes.

We will look at target ranges for Type 1 versus Type 2 diabetes.

Is there a difference?

We will also look at what blood sugars should be during pregnancy for those with gestational diabetes. We will look at other factors when determining blood sugar targets, such as:

• Age
• Other health
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