Diabetes

 Abbott is a leader in the development of products designed to help patients better manage their diabetes. We design, develop and manufacture leading-edge glucose monitoring systems and test strips for use in both home and hospital settings.

Over the last several years, our glucose monitoring business, Abbott Diabetes Care, has offered several innovative products such as Precision Xtra, the first blood glucose monitor to offer ketone testing, and Precision PCx, a hand-held, point-of-care blood glucose monitoring system used in the hospital setting. We also introduced the FreeStyle blood glucose monitoring system that requires a very small sample size, permitting finger testing or less painful alternate site testing on the forearm, upper arm, thigh, calf and base of the hand. This was followed by the FreeStyle Lite blood glucose monitoring system, which combines one of the world’s smallest glucose meters with a very small sample size, a fast test time of about seven seconds, a backlit panel display, a lighted test strip port for easy testing at night or in other low light conditions and four customizable daily alarms.

For additional information, please visit Abbott Diabetes Care.