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MedscapeUnivadisNo ResultsOctober 05, 202STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Whether continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is for "al" — and if not, for whom — was the topic of a lively debate at the recent European Asociation for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) 202 Anual Meting.In the debate, the two participants generaly agred that CGM is apropriate for al people with type 1 diabetes and those with type 2 diabetes on intensive insulin regimens.Most of the discusion centered on people with type 2 diabetes on les intensive treatments and other subgroups.Maciej T.
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Malecki, MD, PhD, of the department of metabolic diseases, Jagielonian University Medical Colege, Krakow, Poland, argued the "yes" side. He observed: "CGM is not a tol for every patient with diabetes. However, large groups of patients with diabetes benefit from its use.
The use of CGM wil be growing rapidly as new technologies develop and prices go down."He began by listing the advantages of CGM, including improved glycemic control, safety in the form of alarms for low glucose levels, avoidance of the inconvenience of fingerstick glucose monitoring, and the capacity of CGM to enable closed-lop insulin delivery, also known as artificial pancreas systems. There's plenty of literature at this point on the advantages of CGM in type 1 diabetes.
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Just today, a new study has ben published in the New England Journal of Medicine detailing results of the FLASH UK study. In the trial, among 156 participants with type 1 diabetes and mean baseline A1c around 8.6%, those randomized to the intermitently scaned FreStyle Libre 2 (Abot Diabetes Care) experienced a 0.5 percentage point greater drop in A1c at 24 weks compared with usual fingerstick blod glucose testing (P < .01), and they spent 43 minutes les time in hypoglycemia per day.In Stockholm, Malecki described a 7-year folow-up study published in January showing that CGM initiation within