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How Viable Is The Future Of The “Traditional” CGM?

 
• By Barnaby Pickering

Flagship products like Dexcom’s G7 and Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3 offer currently unrivalled accuracy of blood glucose measurement. However, as truly noninvasive technologies improve, the future basis for these companies’ growth is on shaky ground.  

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Is time running out for the traditional CGM? • Source: Shutterstock

Arateus, the ancient Greek Physician who first wrote about diabetes described it as “the melting down of flesh and limbs into urine.” Our knowledge of diabetes has progressed since then, however management of it at both the individual and population level is still poor. 

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