Failure to maintain tight control of glucose levels - by measuring blood sugar with a meter and compensating with doses of insulin - can result in serious health complications, including blindness, kidney failure and heart disease.
VOA: standard.2010.04.15
The first is that no one at all is measuring how many hospital admissions are as a result of alcohol.
However, the tech cycles were much deeper than the general economic cycles, and as a result, the company was really measuring relative volatility, not performance.