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Word on the street is........

AndBreathe

AndBreathe

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Yes, as the title says, word on "the street" is there is a proposal doing the rounds for a research study into people living with T2 diabetes, NOT using insulin, exploring the impacts of using a CGM. For the purposes of the study, likely the Libre.

Needless to say, I have my ear firmly to that ground, and will be attending a meeting about it next week.

Progress may be slower than a slow thing, in the land of the slow, but it is out there.
 
AndBreathe said:
Yes, as the title says, word on "the street" is there is a proposal doing the rounds for a research study into people living with T2 diabetes, NOT using insulin, exploring the impacts of using a CGM. For the purposes of the study, likely the Libre.

Needless to say, I have my ear firmly to that ground, and will be attending a meeting about it next week.

Progress may be slower than a slow thing, in the land of the slow, but it is out there.
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Can you imagine the change in diets even a month of a cgm would enable newly diagnosed or struggling T2 and the enlightenment it would give some drs about the benefits of monitoring and some of the current diet advice?

I’m sure they’d have a huge pool of willing (eager) volunteers just in this forum alone.
 
HSSS said:
Can you imagine the change in diets even a month of a cgm would enable newly diagnosed or struggling T2 and the enlightenment it would give some drs about the benefits of monitoring and some of the current diet advice?

I’m sure they’d have a huge pool of willing (eager) volunteers just in this forum alone.
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I know, roughly, how the study will be structured, but I will be interested to know more next week.

There is good work going on out there for T2s, including those in remission.

The times, they are a-changing., as Bob Dylan sang.
 
HSSS said:
Can you imagine the change in diets even a month of a cgm would enable newly diagnosed or struggling T2 and the enlightenment it would give some drs about the benefits of monitoring and some of the current diet advice?

I’m sure they’d have a huge pool of willing (eager) volunteers just in this forum alone.
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It has to be said that many of the population of this forum would not be good study subjects who are well onto their diabetes journeys, and of course we all have to remember that in any study there will be those int he control group, receiving "standard diabetes care" (whatever that is).
 
Sorry to be so tardy updating this thread. It seems to have been a busy week.

Anyway, anyway, my meeting on Monday was interesting. The bid for funding is just being written, although I do think there is still a lot of work to be done to refine what they are looking to achieve and how.

If it doesn't come to fruition this time around (sometimes it takes several bids for funding to get there), I think it will, and to be honest, if it was my research, I might consider deferring my application to be much more robust.

This is potentially such a big piece of work, and should, ideally lead to much bigger pieces.
 
AndBreathe said:
Yes, as the title says, word on "the street" is there is a proposal doing the rounds for a research study into people living with T2 diabetes, NOT using insulin, exploring the impacts of using a CGM. For the purposes of the study, likely the Libre.

Needless to say, I have my ear firmly to that ground, and will be attending a meeting about it next week.

Progress may be slower than a slow thing, in the land of the slow, but it is out there.
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It would be enlightening to have a study done, with actual T2s!
When you read stuff that effects insulin, blood glucose, glycaemic load and other studies designed to help with dietary recommendations. They are all done with test subjects that are not Diabetic!
 
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