Ep 229 – Continuous glucose monitoring

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Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has moved from being a specialist technology used mainly in type 1 diabetes to becoming one of the most important developments in modern glucose management. What began as a way of collecting more frequent glucose measurements has evolved into a platform capable of displaying trends, predicting future glucose changes and, when integrated with insulin pumps, automatically influencing treatment. More recently, CGM has expanded into type 2 diabetes, consumer health, early diagnostic research and telemedicine, while artificial intelligence is opening the possibility of increasingly individualised prediction and decision support. At the same time, researchers…