Secondary Care - Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Introduction and objective: The current state of glucose monitoring includes the use of A1C, self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG), and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). CGM technology has got the potential to revolutionize diabetes care in the near future striving to optimal diabetes management and tight glucose control. Until very recently, this determination could only be achieved by the attainment of multiple capillary blood glucose determinations each day and/or measuring hemoglobin A1C. Those methods are not accurate in cases of unrecognized hypoglycemia, unrecognized nighttime events or in cases of large swings in blood glucose. Our aim is to analyze the benefit of tracking patterns of glucose values by using professional CGM technology used for "blinded" collection of glucose data retrospectively in patients with T2DM in secondary care- diabetologist clinic.