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Keeping Up with the Diabetes Technology: 2016 Endocrine Society Guidelines of Insulin Pump Therapy and Continuous Glucose Monitor Management of Diabetes

  • Pharmacologic Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes (HE Lebovitz and G Bahtiyar, Section Editors)
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Purpose of Review

Decades after the invention of insulin pump, diabetes management has encountered a technology revolution with the introduction of continuous glucose monitoring, sensor-augmented insulin pump therapy and closed-loop/artificial pancreas systems. In this review, we discuss the significance of the 2016 Endocrine Society Guidelines for insulin pump therapy and continuous glucose monitoring and summarize findings from relevant diabetes technology studies that were conducted after the publication of the 2016 Endocrine Society Guidelines.

Recent Findings

The 2016 Endocrine Society Guidelines have been a great resource for clinicians managing diabetes in this new era of diabetes technology. There is good body of evidence indicating that using diabetes technology systems safely tightens glycemic control while managing both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Summary

The first-generation diabetes technology systems will evolve as we gain more experience and collaboratively work to improve them with an ultimate goal of keeping people with diabetes complication and burden-free until the cure for diabetes becomes a reality.

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Acknowledgments

This manuscript is made possible by grants from International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), Juvenile Diabetes Research Association International (JDRF), and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. We would like to thank Ela Pinar for her assistance in text formatting.

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  1. Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., P.O. Box 208064, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    Alfonso Galderisi & Eda Cengiz

  2. Department of Women and Children’s Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Alfonso Galderisi

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Elise Schlissel & Eda Cengiz

  4. Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Koc University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

    Eda Cengiz

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Alfonso Galderisi received research device support from Dexcom, Inc., USA.

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Eda Cengiz is a speaker for NovoNordisk and serves on the advisory board for Novo Nordisk, MannKind, Adocia, and Lexicon.

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Galderisi, A., Schlissel, E. & Cengiz, E. Keeping Up with the Diabetes Technology: 2016 Endocrine Society Guidelines of Insulin Pump Therapy and Continuous Glucose Monitor Management of Diabetes. Curr Diab Rep 17, 111 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-017-0944-6

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