Grace S Lee: Section of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, VA CT Healthcare System, 950 Campbell Avenue, Mc111, West Haven, CT 06516, USA. Electronic address: grace.lee@yale.edu.
Beatrice C Lupsa: Section of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 333 Cedar Street, FMP 107, PO Box 208020, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Continuous glucose monitoring system is a convenient wearable device that provides glucose readings from the interstitial fluid every few minutes. Continuous glucose monitoring has revolutionized diabetes care. Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and type 2 diabetes mellitus, regardless of the type of treatment regimen, can benefit from continuous glucose monitoring. Continuous glucose monitoring systems provide patients with diabetes and their providers with an ambulatory glucose report that summarizes and also gives graphical representations of the glucose data. This wealth of information helps to better understand patients' glycemic patterns, and thereby reduces hemoglobin A and hypoglycemia.
