Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A charity has called for more specialist nurses to be trained in supporting patients use insulin pumps after evidence suggested they are more effective at controlling blood glucose than insulin injections in children with type 1 diabetes and cause fewer complications.
The Australian research, published online in the journal Diabetologia, is the longest and largest study to date of the effectiveness of insulin pumps to treat type 1 diabetes in children.
A total of 345 patients on pump therapy were matched to controls on injections. Subjects had a mean age of 11 years and had diabetes for around four years.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/home/cl...n-pumps-says-diabetes-charity/5062423.article
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The Australian research, published online in the journal Diabetologia, is the longest and largest study to date of the effectiveness of insulin pumps to treat type 1 diabetes in children.
A total of 345 patients on pump therapy were matched to controls on injections. Subjects had a mean age of 11 years and had diabetes for around four years.
http://www.nursingtimes.net/home/cl...n-pumps-says-diabetes-charity/5062423.article
(free registration required)