Continuous glucose monitoring in older adults with diabetes: Data from the diabetes prospective follow‐up ( DPV ) registry
Authors' conclusion
CGM has become more common in older adults with diabetes and will presumably increase further. Age is a predictor for sensor use in older adults with diabetes. Age-related physical barriers and insufficient usability of devices, lack of interest in technologies, but possibly also effects of prejudice on the grounds of age may contribute to this finding.
Study context
- Population
- People with diabetes aged ≥60 years using insulin therapy, 129 treatment centres, Diabetes Prospective Follow-up Registry (DPV)
- Participants
- 6,849 people129 centres
- Exposure
- T2D vs T1D
- T2Dn = 5,320
- T1Dn = 1,529
- Outcome
- Rates of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) use and predictors for CGM use
- Follow-up
- 2019-2021
Methodological detailsmulticentre
- Multicentre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Sensor use · 2019, 2020, 2021
- T1D sensor use 2019
- 28%
- T1D sensor use 2020
- 39%
- T1D sensor use 2021
- 45%
- T2D sensor use 2019
- 10%
- T2D sensor use 2020
- 16%
- T2D sensor use 2021
- 18%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Predictors for sensor use, T1D
- Younger age and CSII use
- P < 0.001
Predictors for sensor use, T2D
- Younger age, longer diabetes duration, higher BMI and CSII use
- P < 0.001
Original publication
Continuous glucose monitoring in older adults with diabetes: Data from the diabetes prospective follow‐up ( DPV ) registry. Diabet Med. Published 27 November 2023. doi:10.
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