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Why Sensor-based Glucose Monitoring?

Sensor-based glucose monitoring devices, such as the FreeStyle Libre portfolio of products, are small, simple and easy to use1 sensor-based systems. They provide glucose readings day and night, without fingerpricks.

 

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Woman with sensor looking at her phone

Benefits vs. Blood Glucose Monitoring

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Blood Glucose
Monitoring

Measures glucose levels in blood

  • Requires finger pricks

  • Requires manual testing multiple times a day

  • Requires you to carry strips, lancet and meter to test

  • Provides glucose levels at a single moment of time

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FreeStyle Libre Portfolio

Measures glucose levels in interstitial fluid

  • Painless,2 without finger pricks

  • Automatically measures glucose levels

  • FreeStyle Libre 2 sensor delivers readings directly to your smartphone◊,ǁ

  • Provides the whole picture about both the current glucose level and changes over timeφ

  • Helps to see the impact of activites and food

  • Proven to reduce time in hypoglycaemia2,3 and improve overall glucose control4

How does Sensor-based Glucose Monitoring work?

Sensor-based Glucose Monitoring is a technology that allows people with diabetes to easily know their glucose levels and where they're heading without finger pricks.

1. Wear the sensor

The sensors are small, unobtrusive, and easily applied to the back of the upper arm1. The sensors come with an applicator and use a small, flexible tip that is inserted just under the skin.

2. Sensor measures glucose levels

The sensor measures glucose readings through the whole 14 day wear period.

3. View glucose readings on your smartphone

Start your sensor using the FreeStyle LibreLink app to monitor your glucose levels on your smartphone.

If you're using a FreeStyle Libre 2 sensor, you can also receive optional alarms to let you know the minute your glucose is too high or too low.¤

What's the difference between interstitial fluid vs blood glucose?

Sensor glucose readings come from the interstitial fluid, a thin layer of fluid that surrounds the cells of the tissue below the skin and not from the blood.5 Watch the video to find out the difference between interstitial fluid monitoring and blood glucose monitoring.

Interstitial fluid glucose vs. blood glucose

Type 1 Times 2

By Mary Murphy, an engineer, a person with Type 1 and a parent of a child with Type 1.

 

“I don’t see diabetes as a block to anything."

Why the FreeStyle Libre is the #1 one sensor worldwide6 – and why our customers love and recommend them.

Discover the FreeStyle Libre and FreeStyle Libre 2 systems

Part of the #1 sensor-based glucose monitoring brand used worldwide6

FreeStyle LibreLink & FreeStyle Libre 2 sensor
References & Disclaimers

Images are for illustrative purposes only. Not real patient or data. 

1. Data on file, Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc.

2. Haak, T. Diabetes Therapy (2017): https://doi.org/10.1007/s13300-016-0223-6.

3. Leelarathna, L. N Engl J Med. (2022): DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2205650.

4. Evans, M. Diabetes Ther (2020): https://doi.org/10.1007/s13300-019-00720-0.

5. https://www.diabetes.co.uk/body/interstitial-fluid.html [accessed July 2023].

6. Data on file, Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc. Based on the number of users worldwide for the FreeStyle Libre portfolio compared to the number of users for other leading personal use sensor based glucose monitoring systems.

† Finger pricks are required if glucose readings and alarms do not match symptoms or expectations.

ǁ Glucose readings are automatically displayed in the FreeStyle LibreLink app only when your smartphone and FreeStyle Libre 2 sensor are connected and in range. 

◊ The FreeStyle LibreLink app is only compatible with certain mobile devices and operating systems. Please check the website for more information about device compatibility before using the app. Use of FreeStyle LibreLink may require registration with LibreView.

φ For a complete glycaemic picture using the FreeStyle Libre system, scan once every 8 hours. For a complete glycaemic picture using the FreeStyle Libre 2 system and smartphone, scan to back fill 8 hours of missing data during signal loss.

¤ Notifications will only be received when alarms are turned on and the sensor is within 20ft of the reading device.