{"id":160359,"date":"2023-03-15T18:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/artificial-pancreas-improves-blood-sugar-control-for-kids-ages-2-6-study-finds"},"modified":"2023-03-15T18:25:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:25:58","slug":"artificial-pancreas-improves-blood-sugar-control-for-kids-ages-2-6-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/artificial-pancreas-improves-blood-sugar-control-for-kids-ages-2-6-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Artificial pancreas improves blood sugar control for kids ages 2\u20136, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-pancreas-improves-blood-sugar-control-for-kids-ages-2-6-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An artificial pancreas originally developed at the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology improves blood sugar control in children ages 2 to 6 with type 1 diabetes, according to a new study. Details of the clinical study and its findings have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Trial participants using the artificial pancreas spent approximately three more hours per day in their target blood sugar range compared with participants in a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/control+group\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">control group<\/a> who continued relying on the methods they were already using to manage their <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood+sugar\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood sugar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Control-IQ system, manufactured by Tandem Diabetes Care, is a diabetes management device that automatically monitors and regulates <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood+glucose\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood glucose<\/a>. The artificial pancreas has an insulin pump that uses advanced control algorithms based on the person\u2019s glucose monitoring information to adjust the insulin dose as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artificial pancreas originally developed at the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology improves blood sugar control in children ages 2 to 6 with type 1 diabetes, according to a new study. Details of the clinical study and its findings have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Trial participants using the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}