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Summary
The advances in technology already available to
health care professionals, and the patients we look
after, does provide more data on which we can
base treatment regimens and the changes needed
to these, so trying to reduce the variability in blood
glucose levels experienced by people with diabetes,
avoiding both hyper and hypoglycaemia as much as
we can, and potentially helping to reduce the risk of
both macro and micro vascular complications.
Future advances may allow both sensing of glucose
levels and alteration in blood glucose lowering ther-
apy even more, to help those with diabetes to adjust
their therapy themselves, with the help of their health
care professionals, or to allow for these adjustments
to be calculated and undertaken through closed loop
systems, so helping to achieve better glycaemic con-
trol, and potentially reducing long-term complications
associated with poorer control.

GCDC 2017