HbA1c Libre Pro Study

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    Pilot Study to Assess use of Freestyle Libre Pro with HbA1c in Determining Diabetes Management

  • IRAS ID

    271103

  • Contact name

    Pamela Reid

  • Contact email

    pamela.reid@abbott.com

  • Sponsor organisation

    Abbott Diabetes Care Ltd

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    0 years, 5 months, 31 days

  • Research summary

    This is a pilot study to determine whether understanding diabetes status and management is better with use of HbA1c with FreeStyle Libre Pro than with HbA1c alone.

    The study will be conducted at primary and secondary care NHS sites in England and will aim to recruit approximately 45 persons with type 2 diabetes on oral glucose-lowering medication, or, oral glucose-lowering medication and biphasic insulin.

    Participants will have FreeStyle Libre Pro sensors applied by their health care professional (HCP), one on each arm, and will wear them for 14 days while going about their daily activities. At the end of the sensor wear period, participants will return to their HCP for a review visit, and to have the sensors removed and their data uploaded.

    The HCP will then complete questionnaires about whether the availability of the LibreView reports would change the decisions they would make about the participants’ diabetes status and management as compared to making those decisions using HbA1c results alone.

  • REC name

    East Midlands - Nottingham 2 Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    19/EM/0304

  • Date of REC Opinion

    7 Oct 2019

  • REC opinion

    Further Information Favourable Opinion