Internet Monitoring vs Medication to Control Blood Sugar in Type 2 Diabetes

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Managing blood sugar levels is important for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) to minimize health problems and complications. One way for patients to notify doctors and receive feedback about their blood sugar management is through an online system. As Internet-based glucose monitoring systems (IBGMS) have already been shown to be effective, the investigators hypothesize that IBGMS is effective as an intervention even when limiting feedback to non-medicine related changes.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Endocrine Research Society

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Type 2 diabetes patients being treated with oral hypoglycemic agents

• HbA1c > 8%

• Willingness to test blood glucose levels a minimum of 3 times daily

• Willingness to be trained on using the Internet-Based Glucose Monitoring System

• Willingness to be randomized

• Trained in self-blood glucose monitoring

• Internet access on a computer

• No prior use or training on IBGMS

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient with medical conditions that may affect their study participation or results will be excluded.

• Patients using medications known to influence control of diabetes (eg steroids systemic or inhaled)

• Liver disease (AST (aspartate aminotransferase) or ALT (alanine aminotransferase) levels > 2.5 times the reference level)

• Renal insufficient with a serum creatinine level > 200 μmol/L