Education on sensor-augmented pump use improves glucose control in type 1 diabetic patients.

A rather large subset of type 1 diabetic patients fails to achieve their therapeutic goals in spite of a basal-bolus insulin regimen, frequent self-monitoring of capillary blood glucose (CBG) and tight medical follow-up [1]. Therefore, we investigated prospectively the effectiveness of specific education on the use of a sensor-augmented pump for improving glucose control in such poorly controlled type-1 diabetes patients in clinical practice. Nine patients (six men, three women), aged 49 ± 13 (mean ± SD) years, with type 1 diabetes since age 30 ± 11 years and a sustained glycated haemoglobin (HbA