Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) measure interstitial fluid (ISF) glucose, and provide information about continuous glucose fluctuations that is not otherwise captured by intermittent blood glucose testing. CGMs may benefit patients having difficulty controlling their blood sugar or during initiation or monitoring of insulin pump use. CGMs require calibration with finger-stick tests and suppl...

OBJECTIVE To determine using the MiniMed continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) 1) whether twice-daily insulin injection therapy achieves adequate control in preschool children with type 1 diabetes and 2) whether the CGMS is more informative than self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) regarding glucose control and well tolerated by preschool children and their families. RESEARCH DESIGN ...

BACKGROUND Continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) can measure glucose levels at 5-minute intervals over a few days, and may be used to detect hypoglycemia, guide insulin therapy, and control glucose levels. This study was undertaken to assess the glucose metabolism disorder by CGMS in obese children. METHODS Eighty-four obese children were studied. Interstitial fluid (ISF) glucose levels...

OBJECTIVE The Medtronic MiniMed Continuous Glucose Monitoring System (CGMS) is designed to continuously monitor interstitial fluid glucose levels within a range of 40-400 mg/dl. It is considered an important tool for overnight glucose monitoring. The goal of this study was to determine the accuracy of this system in individuals with tightly controlled diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Sev...

The aim of the study was to determine whether a 3-day glucose profile is sufficiently representative of the overall metabolic control of a patient, and to evaluate clinical performance of the continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) in type 1 diabetic patients. Eighteen type 1 diabetics (male 7, female 11, mean age 26.7±4.6 years) were included in the study performed at Outpatient Clinic of ...

BACKGROUND Continuous glucose monitoring using subcutaneous sensors has been validated in adults and children with diabetes, and was found to be useful in the management of glucose control. We aimed to assess feasibility and reliability of a new continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) in a population of preterm neonates using a Clarke error grid (CEG) specifically modified for preterm infan...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate whether adjusting diabetic treatment regimens according to the information obtained from a continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) might lead to improved glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS We reviewed the medical charts of 172 patients who used the CGMS for 1 year starting in December 2008 and the records of 1,500...

Collective graphical models (CGMs) are a formalism for inference and learning with aggregate data that are motivated by a model for bird migration. We highlight a close connection between approximate MAP inference in CGMs and marginal inference in standard graphical models. The connection leads us to derive a novel Belief Propagation (BP)-style algorithm for collective graphical models. The alg...

BACKGROUND Intermittent glycemic measurements in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) can result in episodes of severe hypoglycemia or in a poor control of glycemia range. We designed a study to assess accuracy and reliability of continuous monitoring of tissue glucose for patients with distributive shock. METHODS Consecutive patients admitted to the ICU with a diagnosis of dist...

OBJECTIVE To use a portable continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) to evaluate how well the customary intermittent self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) correlates with integrated values during the surrounding time periods in ambulatory patients with type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In the study, 18 young patients with type 1 diabetes were monitored with CGMS for up to 72 h...