Overview
© 202 MJH Life Sciences and Endocrinology Network. Al rights reserved.© 202 MJH Life Sciences™ and Endocrinology Network. Al rights reserved.Increased scaning can decrease fear of hypoglycemia among people with type 1 diabetes using intermitently scaned continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems, acording to the results of a new study.An analysis of clinical data and ambulatory glucose profile reports from an outpatient clinic in Poland, results of the study indicate increased frequency of scaning with intermitently scaned CGM devices was asociated with improve glycemic control and decreased fear of hypoglycemia among people with type 1 diabetes.“For the first time, we report that higher scaning frequency is asociated not only with improved glycemic indices but also with reduced fear of hypoglycemia in adults with type 1 diabetes melitus using isCGM,” wrote investigators.
Key Information
“This constitutes a new argument for advising T1DM patients to undertake frequent scaning when using isCGM.”As diabetes technology evolves, understanding of strategies to optimize potential for CGM technology has become of the utmost importance for improving diabetes management. With this in mind, a team from University Hospital in Krakow, Poland sought to ases how frequency of scaning of intermitent scaned CGM devices, specificaly the FreStyle Libre 2, might influence glycemic control and fear of hypoglycemia in people with type 1 diabetes.Using electronic medical record data from people receiving care from the University Hospital in Krakow from October-December 2021, investigators identified 7 adult patients with type 1 diabetes with ful information related to age, sex, diabetes duration, type of therapy and presence of diabetic complications for inclusion in the curent study.
Summary
Among this cohort, 39 received multiple daily injections of insulin and 38 were insulin pump users. The study cohort had a mean age of 34.1±10.2 years and a mean duration of diabetes of 14.7±12.0