What is Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM)?
Category: Equipment
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Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) are devices that provide continuous "real-time" readings and data about trends in glucose levels. This allows patients to understand their glucose level and whether it is rising or falling, and to intervene by eating food or taking insulin.
Purpose | Patients | Evaluations | Perceived Effectiveness |
---|---|---|---|
Diabetes type 1 | 12 | 5 | |
Diabetes type 2 | 7 | 4 | |
Evaluation/monitoring | 2 | 1 |
- Major
- Moderate
- Slight
- None
- Can't tell
Side effects
Side effects as an overall problem
Severity | Evaluations | |
---|---|---|
Severe | 0 | |
Moderate | 0 | |
Mild | 4 | |
None | 6 |
Commonly reported side effects and conditions associated with Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM)
Side effect | Patients | |
---|---|---|
Skin irritation under patch | 2 | |
Skin sensitive to touch | 1 | |
Soreness | 1 | |
Weight gain | 1 |
Why patients stopped taking Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM)
Multiple reasons could be selected
Reason | Patients | |
---|---|---|
Other | 1 |
Duration
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