User`s guide
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Alerts and the low alarm tell you when your glucose is
outside of your target glucose range and may help you avoid
low and high blood sugar. Rise and fall glucose alerts can
alsoprovidebenetbyalertingyouwhenyourglucoseis
rapidly going down or up. This way you can be alerted to
this information before you are too high or too low and take
action to avoid it. Real-time CGM can help increase time in
your target glucose range without increasing your time in the
low or high glucose range.
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Real-time CGM can help improve diabetes control (lower
A1c values, reducing glycemic variability and time spent
in low and high blood glucose ranges)
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which can help
reduce diabetes related complications.
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Thesebenets
can be seen especially with using real-time CGM at least 6
days per week
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and can be sustained over time.
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In some
cases, patients perceived an increase in their quality of life
and peace of mind when using real-time CGM as well as
reporting a high satisfaction with CGM.
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