CONTINOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING: HOW THEY HELP US IMPROVE

Session Name
GLUCOSE SENSORS
Session Type
E-POSTER VIEWING (EXHIBITION HOURS)
Date
20.02.2020, Thursday
Session Time
09:30 - 15:30
Channel
E-Poster Area
Lecture Time
09:30 - 09:30
Presenter
  • Estela Gil poch, Spain
Authors
  • Estela Gil poch, Spain
  • FJ Arroyo-díez, Spain

Abstract

Background and Aims

Close control of capillary glycaemia is important for treatment adjustment. This self-control provides us with static information about capillary glycemia at a specific time, and multiple daily controls are necessary to know the patient's glycemic profile. It is demonstrated that the greater number of capillary controls there is an improvement in HbA1c. Some technologies have been developed, and provide us information in real time of the patient's glycemic profile, using interstitial glycemia data, which, in times of stability, can be equivalent to capillary blood glucose values.

Methods

Performed the statistical analysis with the SPSS 19 program, comparing HbA1c means from the Levene test. The average A1C is studied in a group of patients with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) (n = 110) and compared with the average A1C in the group of patients without monitoring (n = 72).

Results

There is a significant HbA1c lower in the group of patients with monitoring (7.47 vs 7.88, p <0.05). In addition, among patients with monitoring, A1C is lower in patients who use continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (7.15 vs 7.68, p <0.05).

Conclusions

In our group of patients we can see that the use of continuous glucose monitoring improves the metabolic control in pediatric patients, and this control is optimized when we associate a continuous glucose monitoring device with an infusion system of subcutaneous

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