Konu ile ilgili bir açıklama yapan FDA Yeni Ürün Değerlendirmesi Direktörü Donald St. Pierre, “Diyabet gibi kronik şartlarda yaşayan insanların bakımını kolaylaştıran ve yönetilebilir hale getiren yeni teknolojilerle her zaman ilgileniyoruz. Bu sistem, diyabetli kişileri parmaklarını sürekli delmekten kurtaracak” dedi.
Diyabet, henüz kesin tedavisi bulunamadığı için çağımızın en önemli sağlık sorunlarından birisi olmaya devam ediyor. Dünyada yaklaşık 415 milyon olan diyabetli insan sayısının 2035’te 592 milyona ulaşacağı tahmin ediliyor. Ülkemiz de diyabetli sayısının en hızlı arttığı ülkelerin başında geliyor. Şu anda 7 milyon olan diyabetli sayısının 2035’te yaklaşık 12 milyona ulaşacağı öngörülüyor.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System, the first continuous glucose monitoring system that can be used by adult patients to make diabetes treatment decisions without calibration using a blood sample from the fingertip (often referred to as a “fingerstick”).
The system reduces the need for fingerstick testing by using a small sensor wire inserted below the skin’s surface that continuously measures and monitors glucose levels. Users can determine glucose levels by waving a dedicated, mobile reader above the sensor wire to determine if glucose levels are too high (hyperglycemia) or too low, and how glucose levels are changing. It is intended for use in people 18 years of age and older with diabetes; after a 12-hour start-up period, it can be worn for up to 10 days.
“The FDA is always interested in new technologies that can help make the care of people living with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, easier and more manageable,” said Donald St. Pierre, acting director of the Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health and deputy director of new product evaluation in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health. “This system allows people with diabetes to avoid the additional step of fingerstick calibration, which can sometimes be painful, but still provides necessary information for treating their diabetes—with a wave of the mobile reader.”
People with diabetes must regularly test and monitor their blood sugar to make sure it is at an appropriate level, which is often done multiple times per day by taking a fingerstick sample and testing it with a blood glucose meter. Typically patients use results of a traditional fingerstick test to make diabetes treatment decisions; however, fingerstick testing is not needed to inform appropriate care choices or to calibrate glucose levels with this system. >>> FDA açıklamasının tam metnine şu linkten ulaşabilirsiniz: >>>
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