An innovative way to overcome barriers to glucose self-monitoring

Blood glucose monitoring is underutilized by most type 2 diabetes patients

Common Barriers

  • Pain and discomfort
  • Fear of needles
  • Hand washing
  • Blood sampling in public
  • Sore fingers
  • Not having supplies handy
of type 2 patients

test less frequently than recommended1

of people testing

skip tests because of the invasiveness of the procedure2

Frequent glucose monitoring reduces HbA1c

For all types of diabetes and treatments 3

Adequate glycemic control reduces the risk of diabetes complications 4

HbA1c level is the gold-standard indicator

The utility of glucose monitoring can be improved through attention to key factors, including sufficient test frequency and appropriate timing5

low-compliance Pain and discomfort Fear of needles Poor diabetes education Lack of motivation Physical and psychological impediments

A new paradigm for assessing glucose profiles in the tissue

There is a high correlation found between glucose values measured with plasma gold-standard method and tissue glucose values measured with GlucoTrack, indicating that this is a reliable way to assess glucose profiles.

Plasma and tissue inter-patient glucose profile variability
Time (min) elapsed after a meal
Plasma glucose (mmol/L measured with YSI)
Time (min) elapsed after a meal
Tissue glucose (mmol/L measured with GlucoTrack)

Glucose concentrations in tissue show a general lagging effect in the post-prandial state compared with plasma values. Post-prandial time lag can be individually optimized.

“The lag time does in any case not compromise one of the main intentions for frequent non-invasive glucose measurement, which is to identify the right time for treatment initiation or intensification.”

(Prof. Dr. Andreas Pfützner, principal investigator of the clinical evaluation study)

Tissue Glucose Time Lag vs Plasma
Evaluation of GlucoTrack® Model DF-F Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring Device in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Subjects with Prediabetes.

Pfützner A. et al. Oct. 2016

The results confirm a stable GlucoTrack device performance among its intended users, including prediabetic patients, for frequent pain-free non-invasive monitoring of glucose levels.

Accurate and precise glucose results in pre and post-prandial states

CEG GlucoTrack vs gold-standard YSI plasma reference

GlucoTrack clinical validation compendium Dec 2018.

99.7% of results in zones A+B6 (91.3% in Zone A)
7.9 ± 0.6 Mean PARD ± SD7
98.2% of post-prandial results in zones A + B8
Performance of a non-invasive glucose monitoring device: accuracy and precisión

Sror M. et al. ATTD, 2018

GlucoTrack is highly accurate. Sensor-to-sensor precision is comparable to that of CGMs.

Non-Invasive glucose monitoring device: reducing impact of post-prandial lagging effect during measurement

Gal A. et al. DTM, 2016

Lagging effect correction equalizes accuracy for pre- and post-prandial readings.

Reliable and stable results over 6 months for a broad range of people with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes

Applicability of a non-invasive glucose monitor in subjects with various demographic profiles throughout 6 months of use

Gal A. et al. IDF, 2015

These findings suggest that the cost-effective, painless device is suitable for various type 2 diabetes population, for the entire calibration validity period.

Influence of medications on the accuracy of GlucoTrack® - a non-invasive glucose monitoring device

Lin T. et al. ADA, 2017

Clinical and numerical accuracies are comparable between all subjects regardless of tested medication consumption, indicating that GlucoTrack is suitable for subjects under medication regime.

The accuracy of a non-invasive glucose monitoring device does not depend on clinical characteristics of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Lin T. et al. January 2018

GlucoTrack performance does not depend on diabetes duration, HbA1c level, and smoking history, indicating the device is suitable for various people with type 2 diabetes.

What patients say about GlucoTrack

Pleased with the device
I will test more often

81% of patients who assessed GlucoTrack’s usability were pleased or very pleased with the device

  • Fully Agree
  • Tend to Agree
  • Neutral
  • Tend to Disagree
  • Fully Disagree

73% of patients declared their intention to monitor more frequently with GlucoTrack®

Acceptance of a Truly Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring Device for Home Use

Gal A. et al. EASD, 2014

GlucoTrack maintenance of performances in home use regardless of user skills shows device suitability for layperson use.

Which patients can benefit the most from using GlucoTrack?

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Patients failing to meet their targets

  • HbA1c > 53 mmol/mol
  • BMI ≥ 27.5 kg/m2
Patients failing to meet their targets
Low compliance to self-monitoring blood glucose

Patients testing less frequent than recommended; patients naïve to glucose monitoring.

No lancets, no strips, no skin irritations
Need enhanced insights or greater motivation

When glucose values do not explain HbA1c levels ; patients about to move to the next therapeutic step; patients who need to test very often.

No lancets, no strips, no skin irritations
Resistance to invasive testing

Patients with anxiety or distress; fragile patients; afraid of finger pricking.

1 Karter AJ et al. Diabetes Care. 2000. 2 Wagner J et al. Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. 2005. 3 Karter AJ et al. The American Journal of Medicine. 2001. 4 Stratton I et al. UKPDS. British Medicine Journal. 2000. 5 Leszeck C et al. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2014. 6 GlucoTrack clinical validation compendium Dec 2018. 7 Sror M et al. ATTD. 2018. 8 Gal A et al. DTM. 2016.