Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) is rapidly becoming a standard of care in the management of Type 1 diabetes (T1D). Today's devices are nearly as accurate as home glucose meters. They provide glucose data every 5 minutes, alert to high and low blood glucose levels, and allow for remote monitoring of a user's glucose data and patterns.
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April 2013
Of 151 youth with type 1 diabetes who were screened for peripheral neuropathy, and received nerve conduction studies, 11% were diagnosed with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN). DPN can occur in young children, with short diabetes duration, and good diabetes control. National guidelines for screening children for DPN should be developed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDisorders of hemolysis reduce the exposure time of hemoglobin to glucose, resulting in a falsely low hemoglobin A1c level. This case report describes the unexpected diagnosis of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency made during evaluation of discordant HbA1c and blood glucose measurements.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of the study was to compare three nursing interventions and their impact on glycemic control among children with type I diabetes. The 75 subjects' mean +/- SD age was 12.5 +/- 3.
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