Diabetech Publishes Type 2 Clinical Trial Results at ADA
June 27th, 2007 by Kevin
People with type 2 diabetes using our GlucoMON wireless glucose meter for mobile diagnostics, the GlucoDYNAMIX rules engine and connectivity with their social networks enjoyed significant reductions in their A1c levels. This is just another of many reports of great outcomes available when people with diabetes work together using a simple, real-time system.
As it spells out in the press release, 84% of the type 2 participants reduced their A1c by 1.1 points on average.
Knowledge is power and people who buy into the paradigm of Measure, Understand and Act can generate outcomes that rival any of the currently available medications. Combination therapy is on the way to including diet, activity, self-care diagnostics, medication and technology enhanced diabetes social support networks.
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June 29th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Kevin:
This is extremely promising information.
I can confirm from my own experience that results like this are to be expected. Through the participation and interaction at http://www.TuDiabetes.com (a Social Network for Those Affected by Diabetes) and the daily use of http://www.SugarStats.com (see my review about it here: http://tudiabetes.com/profiles/blog/show?id=583967%3ABlogPost%3A4989) I’ve seen an impact of almost 10% reduction in my average BG in the course of a month.
Learning from other people’s experience, for once; seeing you’re not alone; learning more about your eating patterns to adjust them: it’s all part of better managing diabetes.
June 30th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Thanks for sharing your experience Manny. One of the most important aspects of this trial was how we automated the logbook and the social networking interactions. What this means is that your manually driven experience can be reasonably extended to people who are not willing to take the time out or even have access to the Internet.
Since many people with diabetes may not be as tech savvy as you and the rest of the Tu Diabetes community (including me), the offline population can still be on the grid and enjoy improved outcomes. As a finalist in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Racial Disparities grant program, the programs that we’ve developed have been recognized as offering parity in diabetes care for everyone with diabetes regardless of ethnicity, geography and socio-economic status.
In addition to several smaller trials, we are also deploying a large scale diabetes network based on this trial design throughout South Texas thanks to a federal grant. Rural kids w type 1 and type 2 diabetes in South Texas will enjoy the first regional deployment of this program with additional regional diabetes centers to follow. The unfortunate reality for most of these kids is that they do not have Internet access making online communities like CWD and Tu Diabetes inaccessible.