Dexcom G4 PLATINUM User Manual page 18

Alerts and the low alarm tell you when your glucose is outside of your target glucose
range and may help you avoid low and high blood sugar. Rise and fall glucose alerts can
also provide benefit by alerting you when your glucose is rapidly going down or up. This
way you can be alerted to this information before you are too high or too low and take
action to avoid it. Real-time CGM can help increase time in your target glucose range
without increasing your time in the low or high glucose range.
Real-time CGM can help improve diabetes control (lower A1c values, reducing glycemic
variability and time spent in low and high blood glucose ranges)
reduce diabetes related complications.
using real-time CGM at least 6 days per week
cases, patients perceived an increase in their quality of life and peace of mind when using
real-time CGM as well as reporting a high satisfaction with CGM.
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