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Hello, I’m new to this group. I have had Type 1 dlook forward to being able to talk to other people about it.
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Bruce Stephens
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It is. And over the next few years ~75% will be offered a hybrid closed loop. (And maybe that'll be 100%, presuming things go as hoped.)
Bruce Stephens
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It's the obvious thing to think of once you have a computer controlled insulin pump and a CGM: you connect the two together (carefully) so the system can automate some of the process of managing BG. (It's hybrid rather than fully closed loop because it still allows (and encourages) intervening for food and (I think) exercise. The trials with fully closed systems have mostly been in people with Type 2.)
Bruce Stephens
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Closed loop systems (artificial pancreas)
Some people with type 1 diabetes use an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor that ‘talk to each other’. It does this through a computer programme on your phone or inside the pump. This is called a closed loop system. It is sometimes known as an artificial pancreas. It can do some of the...
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