What are the real-world benefits of flash glucose monitoring?
The devices are associated with marginally lower HbA1c and fewer hypoglycaemic events compared with self-monitoring, researchers find
Flash glucose monitoring yields a small but sustained improvement in HbA1c for people with type 1 diabetes, according to one of the largest observational studies to date.
Although the difference might be too small to be clinically meaningful alone, the study also showed a 21% reduction in severe hypoglycaemic events with flash glucose monitoring (FGM) compared with self-monitoring, researchers say.
In the independently-funded study, data from the Swedish National Diabetes Registry for 14,372 adults with type 1 diabetes using FGM were compared with information on 7691 others who self-monitored.
Those in the FGM group had initiated use of the technology in 2016-17 and used it continuously for at least two years.
