Observational studyDiabetologia2022
Flash monitor initiation is associated with improvements in HbA
Observational study in Diabetologia, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Equity of Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Children and Young People With Type 1 Diabetes: A Systematic Review.Pediatric diabetes · 2025Pooled it
- International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2024 Diabetes Technologies: Glucose Monitoring.Hormone research in paediatrics · 2024Guideline
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- A Study Protocol for a Randomized, Controlled Trial: Improving Glucose Time-in-Range in Diabetes in African Youth (DAYTime).Methods and protocols · 2026Article
- Impact of Omnipod 5 automated insulin delivery on continuous glucose monitoring metrics and predictors of improvement in time in range.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2025Observational
- Predictors of impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia and severe hypoglycaemia in adults with type 1 diabetes.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2025Article
- ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2022: Diabetes technologies: Glucose monitoring.Pediatric diabetes · 2022Article
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- Improved glucometrics in people with type 1 diabetes 1 year into the COVID-19 pandemic.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2022Observational
- Felix dies natalis, insulin… ceterum autem censeo "beta is better".Acta diabetologica · 2021Review
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17 authors at 11 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
aims/hypothesisWe assessed the real-world effect of flash monitor (FM) usage on HbA
methodsThis study was retrospective, observational and registry based. Using the national diabetes registry, 14,682 individuals using an FM at any point between 2014 and mid-2020 were identified. Within-person change from baseline in HbA
resultsPrevalence of ever-FM use was 45.9% by mid-2020, with large variations by age and socioeconomic status: 64.3% among children aged <13 years vs 32.7% among those aged ≥65 years; and 54.4% vs 36.2% in the least-deprived vs most-deprived quintile. Overall, the median (IQR) within-person change in HbA CONCLUSIONS/
interpretationFM initiation is associated with clinically important reductions in HbA
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