Devices manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, Medtronic and DexCom Inc can all help keep blood sugar levels within the desired range in type 1 diabetes patients, researchers reported.
Better sugar control may reduce complications like blindness, kidney failure, heart disease or amputation.
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In the study 322 adults and children were randomly assigned to use either a continuous monitoring device or to proceed as before.
The researchers said that 30% of the people who used the devices got their hemoglobin a1c readings below 7 as compared to 7 percent who used traditional methods to monitor their sugar levels.
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