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Real‐time continuous glucose monitoring as a tool to prevent severe hypoglycaemia in selected pregnant women with Type 1 diabetes – an observational study
Author(s) -
Secher A. L.,
Stage E.,
Ringholm L.,
Barfred C.,
Damm P.,
Mathiesen E. R.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
diabetic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.474
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1464-5491
pISSN - 0742-3071
DOI - 10.1111/dme.12383
Subject(s) - medicine , continuous glucose monitoring , pregnancy , incidence (geometry) , type 1 diabetes , observational study , diabetes mellitus , type 2 diabetes , hypoglycemia , pediatrics , obstetrics , intensive care medicine , endocrinology , physics , biology , optics , genetics
What's new? Among 12 women at estimated high risk of severe hypoglycaemia in pregnancy using real‐time continuous glucose monitoring from early pregnancy onwards, the incidence rates of severe hypoglycaemia were 2.8 events/patient‐year in the year before pregnancy, and 17.5 before and 0.3 after real‐time continuous glucose monitoring initiation in pregnancy. Further evaluation is required as to whether real‐time continuous glucose monitoring from early to mid‐pregnancy in highly selected women with Type 1 diabetes may help reduce the risk of severe hypoglycaemia. Other elements of focused intervention against severe hypoglycaemia in a routine pregnancy care setting probably also contribute to the risk reduction.