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HealthDay News — For patients with type 1 diabetes, artificial pancreas treatment is efficacious, increasing the proportion of time spent in the near normoglycemic range, according to a study published in The BMJ.
Eleni Bekiari, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Thessaloniki in Greece, and colleagues conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the efficacy and safety of artificial pancreas treatment in non-pregnant outpatients with type 1 diabetes. Forty randomized controlled trials with 1,027 participants and data for 44 comparisons were analyzed.
The researchers found that 35 of the comparisons examined a single-hormone artificial pancreas system, while nine assessed a dual-hormone system.
A low risk of bias was seen in only nine studies. Artificial pancreas use was associated with a significantly higher proportion of time in the near normoglycemic range, both overnight (weighted mean difference, 15.15 percent) and over a 24-hour period (9.62 percent).
A favorable effect was seen with the artificial pancreas system for the proportion of time with sensor glucose level above 10 mmol/L or below 3.9 mmol/L over 24 hours compared with control treatment (−8.52 and −1.49 percent, respectively). Sensitivity analyses verified the robustness of the findings.
“Artificial pancreas systems are an efficacious and safe approach for treating outpatients with type 1 diabetes,” the authors write.
Several authors disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
