Secondary Care - Continuous Glucose Monitoring

STUDY DESIGN: An observational, multicenter, cross-sectional study. A total of 20 diabetologist from four Croatian regions will recruit up to ten subjects of both sexes from May 2018 till the end of May 2019, diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus at least one year prior to study entry, aged ≥40 years, with only basal insulin in therapy and with clinical suspicion of hypoglycemia or with disproportion in actual glycaemia and hemoglobin A1c findings. Sociodemographic, laboratory (HbA1c, fasting and postprandial glucose, total cholesterol, and high density cholesterol, and low density cholesterol, triglyceride and serum creatinine) and habits data will be collected. SETTING: Totally 100 of patients will be included. At diabetologist office each patient wear the device (iPro™2 Medtronic) subcutaneously for up to 7-days and return it to the office for download. Patients only see the CGM data after it's been analyzed by the healthcare professional. A CGM device is to be set and take off by the diabetologist. Before the study start all diabetologist who are not familiar to the method will have a short education. Study period is seven days and includes screening before study entry and two visits. On Day 1, after screening and signing the informed consent, the CGM device is applied. Patient is instructed to keep a 7 day diary with four daily standard SMBG along with the data on eating, physical exercise, drugs. On Day 7, CGM device is taken off and the data from iPro2 is uploaded to PC. At the end, each patient fills a short query on satisfaction while wearing CGM.