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- I have type 1 diabetes.

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My parents and I were always worried

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that my blood sugar was gonna go too low,

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at school, on my own, especially at night.

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How can we reduce our fear

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that I’m going to have lows?

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- Great question.

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Most kids with type one
diabetes and their parents

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do worry about their sugar going low,

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referred to as hypoglycemia.

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We examined this in the
study looking at kids,

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who going on pump therapy with CGM,

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continuous glucose monitoring,

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with the option of low
glucose suspend, called LGS.

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What that does is it looks
at whether your sugar

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is going low, which the CGM sees.

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When it is, it automatically
stops the delivery of insulin

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and the sugar can rise to a safe level.

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CHEO led this study at about
five pediatric sites in Ontario.

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And 28% of the patients in
the study came from CHEO,

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which is great.

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So we found that when kids
wear an insulin pump with CGM,

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with the option of LGS,

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that this had a significant
impact on what they did

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to avoid hypoglycemia
because of fear of it.

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Even more significant, what
it did was it decreased

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how much they worried about hypoglycemia,

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both during the day, whether
in public, at school,

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and while sleeping.

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And that's great news.

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