Continuous Glucose Monitoring in New Mothers With Type 1 Diabetes

Steno Diabetes Centers

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypoglycemia; Breastfeeding

Treatments: Device: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02898428

SDC-2016-055

Details and patient eligibility

About

With appropriate day-time carbohydrate intake and insulin dose, the 24 hour glucose levels and prevalence of night-time hypoglycaemia are comparable in breastfeeding new mothers and formula feeding new mothers with type 1 diabetes at the second after delivery diabetes control compared with the first after delivery diabetes control at Steno Diabetes Center.

Enrollment: 65 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 18 and 45 years.
• Delivery of a single infant.
• Proficiency in Danish to read and understand the patient information sheet, questionnaires and to converse with the diabetes caregivers.

Exclusion criteria

• A diagnosis with severe mental or psychiatric barriers or a concurrent disease on the decision of the principal investigator

Trial design

65 participants in 2 patient groups

New mothers

Description:

New mothers with type 1 diabetes

Treatment:

Device: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)

Control group

Description:

Non-pregnant, non-breastfeeding women with type 1 diabetes matched for age and BMI

Treatment:

Device: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)