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Why is blood sugar called bm?

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Literally it stands for Boehringer Mannheim, a German pharmaceutical company that used to make by far the most commonly used test strips for blood glucose. Thus, when doctors or nurses referred to a blood sugar result they said that the patient's BM was so many millimoles.

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