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ADA2018: Senseonics' Implantable CGM Beats Abbott, Dexcom In Head-To-Head Study – But Is Methodology Flawed?

 
• By Marion Webb

In a three-way patient study comparing the accuracy of three currently available continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices, the newly FDA-approved Eversense by Senseonics performed significantly better than the Abbott Freestyle Libre Pro and Dexcom G5. The study findings were presented during this year's annual American Diabetes Association meeting in Orlando, Florida. This article also discusses other highlights presented by the three companies at the ADA conference.

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In a head-to-head study comparing the accuracy of three available continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices – Dexcom Inc.'s G5 (not the newly licensed G6), Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.'s Freestyle Libre Pro (not the patient version) and Senseonics Holdings Inc.' Eversense, an implantable device – in a real world outpatient setting, the point accuracy of the Eversense CGM system was significantly better than the other two systems, Rabab Jafri of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston wrote in the July issue of the American Diabetes Association's medical journal Diabetes.

Findings of the study involving 23 adults with type 1 diabetes, who wore all three devices concomitantly at home for six weeks, showed that overall the Eversense was more accurate...

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