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Abstract
Diabetes is a complex, chronic illness requiring continuous medical care with multifactorial risk-reduction strategies beyond glycemic control. Ongoing patient self-management education and support are critical to prevent acute complications and reduce the risk of long-term complications. Significant evidence exists that supports a range of interventions to improve diabetes outcome.
The glycemic index measures how a carbohydrate-containing food raises blood glucose and is a ranking of carbohydrate exchanges according to their effect on postprandial glycemia or quantifying the relative blood glucose response to carbohydrates in individual foods, comparing them on a weight-for-weight basis (i.e., per gram of carbohydrate)
Continuous Glucose Monitors can provide a near continuous read-out of interstitial glucose concentration, which adequately reflects blood glucose concentration and can help to identify trends and patterns in glucose control with only a single needle stick to place the sensor, they can be programmed to alarm for either high or low glucose values and thus they potentially reduce fear related to hypo or hyperglycemia.