Insulin Could Automatically be Supplied to Diabetics By 'Artificial Pancreas'

A major medical breakthrough in the development of 'artificial pancreas,' was reported by doctors.

A major medical breakthrough in the development of 'artificial pancreas,' a device, which will constantly monitor blood sugar in diabetics and also automatically supply insulin as needed was reported by doctors.

A key part of such a system - an insulin pump that is programmed to shut down if blood-sugar level drops down dangerously while people are asleep - worked as it was intended in a three-month study of 247 patients suffering from Type 1 diabetes, Fox News reported.

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The 'smart pump' that has been developed by Minneapolis-based Medtronic Inc., is already being sold in Europe, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing it now.

Dr. Richard Bergenstal, diabetes chief at Park Nicollet, a large clinic in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, who led the company-sponsored study, said that this is the first step in the development of the artificial pancreas.

In the study, patients were given sensors, which continuously monitored their blood sugar.

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50 percent of them were given ordinary insulin pumps and the others given pumps that were programmed to stop insulin supply for two hours when blood-sugar fell low.

Over 3 months, 33 percent people using the pump with the shut-off feature saw a reduction in low-sugar episodes.

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The study has also been published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.

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