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ArticleJournal of diabetes science and technology2008

Continuous glucose monitoring: changing diabetes behavior in real time and retrospectively.

Jennifer M Block

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Article in Journal of diabetes science and technology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Effect of FSL-CGM on Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in GDM: A Propensity Score Matching Study in Hangzhou, China.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2025
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  8. Continuous Glucose Monitoring As a Behavior Modification Tool.Clinical diabetes : a publication of the American Diabetes Association · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jennifer M BlockDepartment of Pediatric Endocrinology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California 94305, USA. jblock@stanford.edu
Stanford University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Results of both the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Studies supported the role of tight glucose control in reducing long-term complications of diabetes. There is further evidence that glycemic variability may be better correlated with the risk for complications than sustained hyperglycemia. These studies reinforce the need to work toward improved glucose control with minimal variability in patients with diabetes. Continuous glucose monitoring technology offers a means of obtaining a more complete picture of glucose patterns and can be used to aid in identifying trends in glycemic variability, especially overnight and after meals when blood glucose testing is not usually performed. Increased access to retrospective trends, the addition of real-time glucose alarms, and prospective trend data can be advantageous in motivating and evaluating behavior change.

Indexed as

behavior modificationcontinuous glucose monitorsglucose trendsreal timeretrospective

Identifiers

PMID19885215
PMCPMC2769738
OpenAlexW2067026864

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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