The Abbott Diabetes Care company has communicated an update of the free freeyle reader, and its software.An update that has improved the current algorithm of the flash monitoring system improving two points:
- Greater accuracy since day 1, being the sensor readings even closer to blood glucose.Recall that flash measurement is performed in the patient's interstitial fat.
- Increases the accuracy of the analyzes throughout the period of use of the sensor, the 14 days that it is hard.
According to Abbott, accuracy is clinically tested, it is stable and consistent during the 14 days of use of the sensor without the need to calibrate the sensor with punctures on the fingers.
According to the clinical study, the update achieves greater accuracy in 100 % of the glucose results in areas A and B of the Grid Error of consensus, 89.1 % of glucose data in zone A1 being.This study also confirms that they improve 90.6% of glucose results in ± 20mg/dl in the low range (less than 80mg/dl) 2.And 9.5% Mard for 14 days.Recall that MRD is the value that measures the accuracy of a sensor as a percentage and means what difference between the measurements of the system to be measured with respect to another reference system.
What do free freeyle users have to do to get even more accuracy?
In order to get the most out of the free freestyle update, what users should do is to update the freeLink Freestyle app and the free freestyle reader software.
Freestyle freeLink app can be updated even if the user currently has an active sensor.The update can be done through the web, www.freestylelibre.com/app or if the user already uses freeLink App and has activated automatic updates on their mobile will be automatically updated.
Free Freestyle reader update should only be done through a computer on the website www.freestylelibre.com/update and follow the screen instructions.
From Abbott Diabetes Care they remind us that the free freestyle reader update should be performed before starting a new sensor.If the free freestyle reader is updated while wearing an active sensor, that sensor with the free freestyle reader cannot be re -scanned again.But you can continue scanning that active sensor with a mobile, through the freeLink Freestyle app.