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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Endocrinol.
Sec. Clinical Diabetes
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fendo.2025.1466358
This article is part of the Research Topic Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Beyond Diabetes Management View all 10 articles
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Objectives: Based on FreeStyle Libre, we designed QT AIR, an advanced real-time, calibrated Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) device. This study aim to validate the consistency and clinical accuracy of the product by comparing the capillary blood glucose (CBG) with CGM data in both in-hospital and outpatient scenarios.Results of CGM devices were compared with random capillary glucose values from users in both in-hospital and outpatient settings. The accuracy of CGMs was assessed through consistency analysis, Bland-Altman analysis, calculation of MARD and MAD, Consensus Error Grids, as well as analysis using the Continuous Glucose Deviation Interval and Variability Analysis (CG-DIVA).In outpatient setting, 1907 values from 138 users were analyzed. FreeStyle Libre data, QT AIR calibrated and uncalibrated data showed strong positive correlations with capillary blood glucose values. The MARD values for the FreeStyle Libre, uncalibrated QT AIR, and calibrated QT AIR groups were 18.33%, 20.63%, and 12.39%, respectively. Consensus Error Grid, reference values in Zone A : FreeStyle Libre: 69.75%, QT AIR uncalibrated: 67.80%, QT AIR calibrated: 87.62%.The Bland-Altman analysis results suggest that FreeStyle Libre exhibitsed a systematic underestimation of blood glucose levels, while QT AIR almost rectified the differences. In the in-Hospital setting, the MARD of QT AIR after calibration was reduced to 7.24%. The Consensus error grid analyses of the in-Hospital data revealed that 95% of the calibrated QT AIR values fell within Zone A, a significantly higher proportion than that of other two group. The CG-DIVA analysis of the calibrated QT AIR device showed a median bias of -0.49% and a between-sensor variability of 26.65%, both of which are significantly lower than the corresponding values observed for the FreeStyle Libre device.We successfully transformed a retrospective CGM system into a real-time monitoring device. The monitoring accuracy of the device could be improved by calibration. have 删除[wu]: CG-DIVA 删除[wu]: demonstrates a lower meanthe 删除[wu]: 删除[wu]:The study 删除[user]:We have successfully transformed the retrospective CGM into real-time CGM.
Keywords: rtCGM, Continuous glucose monitoring, accuracy, FreeStyle Libre, Calibrate
Received: 17 Jul 2024; Accepted: 01 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wu, Liu, Zhao, Wang, Gu and Xiao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jianzhong Xiao, Beijing Tsinghua Changgeng Hospital, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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