Response to “Blood Glucose Monitoring Data Should Be Reported in Detail When Studies About Efficacy of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems Are Published”

摘要

Pleus et al1 have shown in a recent issue of Journal Diabetes Sciences and Technology that patients seemed to spend considerably less time in hypoglycemia in two studies which used real-time blood glucose monitoring (RTBGM)2,3 than in one study which used interstitial continuous glucose monitoring (ICGM),4 that is FreeStyle Libre CGM (FSLCGM). They suggested that ICGM or RTBGM data should not be reported without accompanying BGM and that quantitative analysis of the bias between ICGM and BGM should be done. We have already reported and quantified, using FSL-CGM, the bias between ICGM and BGM data in insulin-treated dependent elderly people with diabetes living in a long-term care home. Out of 144 interstitial glucose (IG) lower than 70 mg/dL, 74 (51.4%) were associated with blood glucose (BG) equal or higher to 70 mg/dL.