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What benefits might you expect with an Insulin Pump?
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What benefits might you expect with an Insulin Pump?

Dr Sheharyar Quraishi, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist talks about the main benefits of Insulin Pumps you might expect to get. He talks about hypos and time in range benefits. He also talks about how Quality of Life may improve also.

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So the major advantages of using an insulin pump, in my experience, would be that you would expect a reduction in the time you spend in hypoglycemia, which essentially means the low blood sugars. You expect to have an overall reduction in the average of the low blood sugars. You also expect a more time in range, which essentially means that time between six to 10 millimoles, which is recommended a time which is better for you without developing any complications and decrease glucose variability which essentially means how low and high your blood sugar gets with different physical activities and that improves the quality of life because we know from research studies that increased variability in blood sugar control can lead to worse outcomes essentially in simple language more damage to the brain more damage to the kidneys.

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