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The results appear in the April addition of <a href=\"http:\/\/care.diabetesjournals.org\/content\/34\/4\/795.full\" target=\"_blank\">Diabetes Care<\/a>.<br \/> The randomized, controlled, multicenter study, included 120 children and adults on intensive therapy for type 1 diabetes and with a HbA<sub>1c\u00a0<\/sub>of over 7.5%. The patients were randomly assigned to a control group performing conventional home monitoring with a blood glucose meter and wearing a masked continuous glucose monitor every second week for five days, or to a group with real-time continuous glucose monitoring. The study&#8217;s primary outcome was the time spent in hypoglycemia over a period of 26 weeks.<br \/> The researchers found that the time per day spent in hypoglycemia was significantly shorter in the continuous monitoring group than in the control group, the HbA<sub>1c<\/sub> at 26 weeks was lower in the continuous monitoring group than in the control group and the time spent in 70 to 180 mg\/dL (normoglycemia) was significantly longer in the continuous glucose monitoring group compared with the control group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study designed to evaluate the effect of continuous glucose monitoring on hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes has found that continuous glucose monitoring both reduces the amount of time spent by type 1 diabetes patients in hypoglycemia and improves HbA1c levels. 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