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Could CGM Help People With Type 1 Diabetes Live Longer?

Person with type 1 diabetes using a continuous glucose monitor and smartphone to track glucose levels.

Could continuous glucose monitoring do more than improve glucose levels and help prevent hypoglycemia? New research raises that possibility. A large observational study examining CGM use and mortality in people with type 1 diabetes found that starting continuous glucose monitoring was associated with a lower risk of death among older …

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Dialysis Changes the Rules: What Happens When Patients With Diabetes Use Real-Time CGM?

Patient with Type 2 diabetes using real-time CGM while receiving maintenance hemodialysis.

Managing glucose is rarely simple for people with Type 2 diabetes who receive maintenance hemodialysis. Dialysis can change glucose patterns, insulin needs, and the reliability of familiar measures such as A1C. As a result, clinicians may have an incomplete picture when making treatment decisions. New randomized research on CGM use …

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Three Decades of Better Type 1 Diabetes Care: Have Complications Actually Declined?

Person with type 1 diabetes using modern glucose monitoring technology, illustrating advances in care and long-term complication prevention.

Three decades of advances in diabetes care have transformed how people with type 1 diabetes manage glucose. Insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), improved insulin analogs, automated insulin delivery, and earlier screening have all changed daily treatment. However, have these advances actually reduced the long-term complications of type 1 diabetes? …

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Digital Diabetes Coaching: Why an App Alone Isn’t Enough

Person with type 2 diabetes using a digital health app while receiving virtual diabetes coaching and tracking healthy lifestyle goals.

A diabetes app can track meals, count steps, log glucose, and deliver reminders. However, can an app actually help someone turn all that information into lasting daily habits? A recent randomized controlled trial suggests that digital diabetes coaching, with technology supported by ongoing human guidance, may help bridge that gap. …

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