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Insulin pumps after injections and CGM in T1DM

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A recent randomized controlled trial has shown that patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus who are treated with multiple daily insulin injections and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) enjoy a further improvement in glycaemic control when switched to insulin pump therapy with CGM. However, some increase in biochemical hypoglycaemia was evident with pump treatment.

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  1. Division of Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences, King's College London Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, Guy's Hospital, London, SE1 1UK, UK

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The author has received speaker and/or consultancy fees from Cequr, Eli Lilly, Insulet, Medtronic, Novo Nordisk and Roche.

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Pickup, J. Insulin pumps after injections and CGM in T1DM. Nat Rev Endocrinol 13, 568–569 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2017.108

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