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professional to adjust your diabetes management therapy or
techniques.
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.
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Real-time CGM can help improve diabetes control (lower
A1c values, reducing glycemic variability and time spent
in low and high blood glucose ranges) which can help
1, 2 , 3
reduce diabetes related complications. These benefits
4, 5
can be seen especially with using real-time CGM at least 6
days per week and can be sustained over time. In some
2 6
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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Blinded CGM also provides benefit to both the patient and
healthcare professionals. Using blinded CGM allows for the
uninterrupted glucose patterns and trends of a patient's daily
schedule be documented so glucose patterns and trends
can be identified and changes to their diabetes management
can be made to help avoid glucose excursions. Blinded
CGM can also allow for assessment of the true diurnal
glucose patterns as it relates to basal management
adjustment and lifestyle choices of diet and exercise.
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