Artificial Pancreas Systems Could Transform the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Artificial Pancreas Systems Could Transform the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes (1 of 1)

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Closed-loop artificial pancreas systems involve pairing a monitor of glucose levels (CGM) with a smartphone that computes the amount of insulin to deliver through a pump. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Mar. 20, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.K. Boughton at University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK ; and colleagues was titled, "Advances in artificial pancreas systems."

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C.K. Boughton <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2019)

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