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The Impact of Frequent Glucose Monitoring on the Prevalence of Complications Among Patients With Diabetes in Saudi Arabia
Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM), including type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), affects the absorption of glucose from the blood. DM has serious complications that can be prevented by adequate knowledge of the disease and its complications, a healthy lifestyle, a modified diet, and re...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10313341/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37398779 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39796 |
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author | Alkhatieb, Maram T Aljehani, Khalid M Alkhalifah, Hussain A Alghamdi, Nawaf S Almaghrabi, Abdulrahman S Alqarni, Bader B Alzahrani, Abdulrahman Y |
author_facet | Alkhatieb, Maram T Aljehani, Khalid M Alkhalifah, Hussain A Alghamdi, Nawaf S Almaghrabi, Abdulrahman S Alqarni, Bader B Alzahrani, Abdulrahman Y |
author_sort | Alkhatieb, Maram T |
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description | Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM), including type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), affects the absorption of glucose from the blood. DM has serious complications that can be prevented by adequate knowledge of the disease and its complications, a healthy lifestyle, a modified diet, and regular glucose monitoring. Hence, this study aimed to assess the effects of frequent glucose monitoring on the occurrence of DM complications. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed at King Abdulaziz University Hospital between June and December 2022 and included patients with T1D or T2D. After consent, participants who agreed to join filled out an online questionnaire that was used to acquire information, such as demographic data, type of diabetes, blood glucose monitoring, and diabetic complications. Results: A total of 206 diabetic patients participated in this study, with a mean age of 41.2±19.37, with 53.4% having T1D. Most participants monitored their glucose levels (85.4%), and the majority (65.3%) monitored them once or more daily. Patients who monitored their glucose levels more frequently had significantly fewer complications (p = 0.002). Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) was the best monitoring method, as it demonstrated the lowest rate of complications compared to other methods (p = 0.002). Conclusions: Frequent glucose monitoring and the use of CGM devices were associated with a decreased number of DM complications. Thus, we recommend that physicians encourage patients to perform CGM as it helps increase the frequency of monitoring. |
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spelling | pubmed-103133412023-07-01 The Impact of Frequent Glucose Monitoring on the Prevalence of Complications Among Patients With Diabetes in Saudi Arabia Alkhatieb, Maram T Aljehani, Khalid M Alkhalifah, Hussain A Alghamdi, Nawaf S Almaghrabi, Abdulrahman S Alqarni, Bader B Alzahrani, Abdulrahman Y Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM), including type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), affects the absorption of glucose from the blood. DM has serious complications that can be prevented by adequate knowledge of the disease and its complications, a healthy lifestyle, a modified diet, and regular glucose monitoring. Hence, this study aimed to assess the effects of frequent glucose monitoring on the occurrence of DM complications. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed at King Abdulaziz University Hospital between June and December 2022 and included patients with T1D or T2D. After consent, participants who agreed to join filled out an online questionnaire that was used to acquire information, such as demographic data, type of diabetes, blood glucose monitoring, and diabetic complications. Results: A total of 206 diabetic patients participated in this study, with a mean age of 41.2±19.37, with 53.4% having T1D. Most participants monitored their glucose levels (85.4%), and the majority (65.3%) monitored them once or more daily. Patients who monitored their glucose levels more frequently had significantly fewer complications (p = 0.002). Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) was the best monitoring method, as it demonstrated the lowest rate of complications compared to other methods (p = 0.002). Conclusions: Frequent glucose monitoring and the use of CGM devices were associated with a decreased number of DM complications. Thus, we recommend that physicians encourage patients to perform CGM as it helps increase the frequency of monitoring. Cureus 2023-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10313341/ /pubmed/37398779 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39796 Text en Copyright © 2023, Alkhatieb et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism Alkhatieb, Maram T Aljehani, Khalid M Alkhalifah, Hussain A Alghamdi, Nawaf S Almaghrabi, Abdulrahman S Alqarni, Bader B Alzahrani, Abdulrahman Y The Impact of Frequent Glucose Monitoring on the Prevalence of Complications Among Patients With Diabetes in Saudi Arabia |
title | The Impact of Frequent Glucose Monitoring on the Prevalence of Complications Among Patients With Diabetes in Saudi Arabia |
title_full | The Impact of Frequent Glucose Monitoring on the Prevalence of Complications Among Patients With Diabetes in Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | The Impact of Frequent Glucose Monitoring on the Prevalence of Complications Among Patients With Diabetes in Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | The Impact of Frequent Glucose Monitoring on the Prevalence of Complications Among Patients With Diabetes in Saudi Arabia |
title_short | The Impact of Frequent Glucose Monitoring on the Prevalence of Complications Among Patients With Diabetes in Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | impact of frequent glucose monitoring on the prevalence of complications among patients with diabetes in saudi arabia |
topic | Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10313341/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37398779 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39796 |
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