Basics and use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in diabetes therapy

Abstract

For a long time, self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) was widely viewed as the essential glucose measurement procedure in the therapy of insulin-treated people with diabetes. With increasing accuracy and simplified handling of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems, this evolving technology challenges and at least partly replaces SMBG systems.

Keywords

• blood glucose
• continuous glucose monitoring
• diabetes
• glycemic variability
• hypoglycemia
• mean absolute relative difference