Monitoring blood sugar during dialysis
Blood Sugar Sensing on Maintenance Dialysis
This project uses wearable continuous glucose monitors to track blood sugar patterns in people receiving maintenance dialysis.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | University of Washington NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Seattle, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11166096 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
Researchers will place small, wearable continuous glucose monitors on people who receive maintenance dialysis to record blood sugar levels over days and weeks. The team will enroll people with treated diabetes, untreated diabetes, and those without diabetes and will compare sensor readings to routine hemoglobin A1c and medical records. They will measure how often dangerous low or high blood sugars occur, look for factors that predict those events (including dialysis type), and link glucose patterns to heart and other health outcomes. Findings will be used to improve how blood sugar is measured and managed for people on dialysis.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Adults receiving maintenance hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, with or without diagnosed diabetes, would be ideal candidates.
Not a fit: People who are not on maintenance dialysis or who cannot or will not wear a glucose sensor would likely not be eligible or benefit.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this work could help dialysis patients and their clinicians detect hidden low or high blood sugars and make safer, more accurate treatment decisions.
How similar studies have performed: Earlier phases of this project and other efforts using continuous glucose monitoring in kidney patients have already uncovered frequent hidden hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, so this work builds on promising early findings.
Where this research is happening
Seattle, United States
- University of Washington — Seattle, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: De Boer, Ian H — University of Washington
- Study coordinator: De Boer, Ian H
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.