Onetouch Diabetes Management Software V2.3.3

#Onetouch Diabetes Management Software V2.3.3 trial#

Trial Design and Randomization DetailsДЄ randomized, controlled, unblinded clinical trial was conducted in 106 pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes, assigned to one of the two parallel groups with a 1вЂ‰:вЂ‰1 allocation ratio. The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of the ELKa toolset in the improvement of metabolic control in children with T1DM. Our clinical experience shows that ELKa users achieved good glycemic control however, no trials assessing the ELKa influence on metabolic control had been performed prior to this study.

We hypothesize that the features offered by the ELKa toolset may have positive influence on patientsвЂ™ compliance and improve diabetes control in a long-term follow-up. This feature allows users to calculate food exchanges without having to manually enter each weighing result. The ELKa innovative solution differs from other systems by using a real-time transmission of the ingredientsвЂ™ weight onto the computer. Nevertheless, the requirement of Diabetics to manually enter all meal components may be considered too time-consuming for many patients. To our best knowledge, the only software with available trial results that seems comparable to the ELKa system is Diabetics. The program is able to perform calculations for any complex meal taking into account weight changes after thermal processing.ДЇew studies have been performed to evaluate other computer/smartphone applications facilitating food calculations and dedicated for people with diabetes. As a result, the user receives automatically calculated data with the number of calories, CHO, fat, and protein content in the meal. The scale transmits the weight of the ingredients in real-time to the computer via a USB port. During the meal preparation, the user creates or reloads the list of ingredients in the software basing on an incorporated ample food database and weighs them on the ELKaPlus kitchen scale.

The toolset consists of an ELKa WindowsВ® application, distributed as freeware in both Polish and English versions, and an ELKaPlus digital kitchen scale (Figure 1). A parent of our former patient developed the ELKa system (Orcan, Warsaw, Poland) to simplify and shorten everyday calculations of CHO units and fat-protein units of homemade food with a constant precision of the results. Д¬onsidering a rapid development of personal computers, it has become tempting to incorporate them into dietary management. In Bishop et al.вЂ™s study, only 23% of the adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) estimated CHO content within 10вЂ‰g of the true amount per day. For many patients or caregivers, the conventional method of calculation, which requires the food to be weighed and tables with nutritional data to be consulted, is complex, time-consuming, and difficult to perform routinely. Additionally, calculating fat and protein units helps to improve postprandial excursions caused by high in fat and protein meals. IntroductionДЇor patients remaining under intensive insulin therapy, prandial insulin dose calculation based on the establishment of the contents of carbohydrates (CHO) in food is the key to optimizing postprandial glycemia levels. The trial is registered at, number NCT02194517. The ELKa system improves metabolic control in children with T1DM under regular usage. No intergroup differences were found in the hypoglycemic episodes, BMI-SDS, bolus insulin dosage, and total daily insulin dosage. Moreover, in the intervention group, significant reduction of level, by 0.55% point ( ), was noted. A randomized, parallel, open-label clinical trial involved 106 patients aged 50% of meals achieved lower levels ( ), lower basal insulin amounts ( ), and lower intrasubject standard deviation of blood glucose levels ( ) in comparison with the control. To investigate the influence of the ELKa on metabolic control in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). It was designed to automatize the everyday calculations of food exchanges and prandial insulin doses. The ELKa system is composed of computer software, with a database of nutrients, and a dedicated USB kitchen scale.

Onetouch Diabetes Management Software V2.3.3