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Article: Study shows CGM devices also benefit people with type 1 diabetes.(Clinical report)
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- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- June 21, 2009
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People with type 1 diabetes who have already been successful in achieving recommended blood sugar goals can further benefit from using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices, according to results of a major multi-center clinical trial by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Findings of the study were published online by the journal Diabetes Care, available at http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/recent (see also Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International).
According to the JDRF study, using CGM devices enables people who have achieved excellent control (with HbA1c levels below 7 percent) to continue to tightly manage their diabetes ...