Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pregnancy in women with pre-existing Type 1 diabetes (T1DM) is known to carry a 3–5 times increased frequency of severe hypoglycaemia (SH) in the first compared to the third trimester. The main predictors are: pre-gestational SH, HbA1C <6.5%/48 mmol/mol, duration of diabetes and higher total daily insulin doses. Freestyle Libre or flash monitoring utilizes a 14 day tiny glucose sensor which is applied to the back of the arm and scanned with a reader, to ...