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Flash Glucose Monitoring in Croatia: The Optimal Number of Scans per Day to Achieve Good Glycemic Control in Type 1 Diabetes

Background and Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine the optimal number of scans per day required for attaining good glycemic regulation. Materials and Methods: The association of scanning frequency and glucometrics was analyzed according to bins of scanning frequency and bins of tim...

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Autores principales: Canecki-Varzic, Silvija, Prpic-Krizevac, Ivana, Cigrovski Berkovic, Maja, Rahelic, Dario, Schonberger, Ema, Gradiser, Marina, Bilic-Curcic, Ines
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10673386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38003943
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina59111893
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author Canecki-Varzic, Silvija
Prpic-Krizevac, Ivana
Cigrovski Berkovic, Maja
Rahelic, Dario
Schonberger, Ema
Gradiser, Marina
Bilic-Curcic, Ines
author_facet Canecki-Varzic, Silvija
Prpic-Krizevac, Ivana
Cigrovski Berkovic, Maja
Rahelic, Dario
Schonberger, Ema
Gradiser, Marina
Bilic-Curcic, Ines
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description Background and Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine the optimal number of scans per day required for attaining good glycemic regulation. Materials and Methods: The association of scanning frequency and glucometrics was analyzed according to bins of scanning frequency and bins of time in range (TIR) in the Croatian population of type 1 diabetes (T1DM) patients. Results: Intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring (isCGM) Libre users in Croatia performed on average 13 ± 7.4 scans per day. According to bins of scanning frequency, bin 5 with 11.2 ± 02 daily scans was sufficient for achieving meaningful improvements in glycemic regulation, while decreasing severe hypoglycemia required an increasing number of scans up to bin 10 (31 ± 0.9), yet with no effect on TIR improvement. When data were analyzed according to bins of TIR, an average of 16.3 ± 10.5 scans daily was associated with a TIR of 94.09 ± 3.49% and a coefficient of variation (CV) of 22.97 ± 4.94%. Improvement was shown between each successive bin of TIR but, of notice, the number of scans performed per day was 16.3 ± 10.5 according to TIR-based analysis and 31.9 ± 13.5 in bin 10 according to scan frequency analysis. Conclusions: In conclusion, an optimal average number of scans per day is 16.3 in order to achieve glucose stability and to minimize the burden associated with over-scanning.
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spelling pubmed-106733862023-10-25 Flash Glucose Monitoring in Croatia: The Optimal Number of Scans per Day to Achieve Good Glycemic Control in Type 1 Diabetes Canecki-Varzic, Silvija Prpic-Krizevac, Ivana Cigrovski Berkovic, Maja Rahelic, Dario Schonberger, Ema Gradiser, Marina Bilic-Curcic, Ines Medicina (Kaunas) Article Background and Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine the optimal number of scans per day required for attaining good glycemic regulation. Materials and Methods: The association of scanning frequency and glucometrics was analyzed according to bins of scanning frequency and bins of time in range (TIR) in the Croatian population of type 1 diabetes (T1DM) patients. Results: Intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring (isCGM) Libre users in Croatia performed on average 13 ± 7.4 scans per day. According to bins of scanning frequency, bin 5 with 11.2 ± 02 daily scans was sufficient for achieving meaningful improvements in glycemic regulation, while decreasing severe hypoglycemia required an increasing number of scans up to bin 10 (31 ± 0.9), yet with no effect on TIR improvement. When data were analyzed according to bins of TIR, an average of 16.3 ± 10.5 scans daily was associated with a TIR of 94.09 ± 3.49% and a coefficient of variation (CV) of 22.97 ± 4.94%. Improvement was shown between each successive bin of TIR but, of notice, the number of scans performed per day was 16.3 ± 10.5 according to TIR-based analysis and 31.9 ± 13.5 in bin 10 according to scan frequency analysis. Conclusions: In conclusion, an optimal average number of scans per day is 16.3 in order to achieve glucose stability and to minimize the burden associated with over-scanning. MDPI 2023-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10673386/ /pubmed/38003943 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina59111893 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Canecki-Varzic, Silvija
Prpic-Krizevac, Ivana
Cigrovski Berkovic, Maja
Rahelic, Dario
Schonberger, Ema
Gradiser, Marina
Bilic-Curcic, Ines
Flash Glucose Monitoring in Croatia: The Optimal Number of Scans per Day to Achieve Good Glycemic Control in Type 1 Diabetes
title Flash Glucose Monitoring in Croatia: The Optimal Number of Scans per Day to Achieve Good Glycemic Control in Type 1 Diabetes
title_full Flash Glucose Monitoring in Croatia: The Optimal Number of Scans per Day to Achieve Good Glycemic Control in Type 1 Diabetes
title_fullStr Flash Glucose Monitoring in Croatia: The Optimal Number of Scans per Day to Achieve Good Glycemic Control in Type 1 Diabetes
title_full_unstemmed Flash Glucose Monitoring in Croatia: The Optimal Number of Scans per Day to Achieve Good Glycemic Control in Type 1 Diabetes
title_short Flash Glucose Monitoring in Croatia: The Optimal Number of Scans per Day to Achieve Good Glycemic Control in Type 1 Diabetes
title_sort flash glucose monitoring in croatia: the optimal number of scans per day to achieve good glycemic control in type 1 diabetes
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10673386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38003943
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina59111893
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