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Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) provides essential clinical support for safer exercise in type 1 diabetes by reducing post-exercise hypoglycemia, though behavioral barriers and inequitable access significantly limit its real-world benefits. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Evaluate recent evidence regarding the psychosocial barriers, exercise safety, and access-related challenges of using continuous glucose monitoring technology in physically active individuals with type 1 diabetes.

August 27, 2026International Journal of Innovative Technologies in Social ScienceOpen Access

Continuous Glucose Monitoring as an Innovative Digital Health Technology in Type 1 Diabetes: Psychosocial Barriers, Physical Activity and Equity of Access

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AKAleksander Krupski MMMichal Marusza VSVictoria Stielow

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Literature review demonstrates that continuous glucose monitoring enhances exercise safety in type 1 diabetes, indicating that behavioral barriers and unequal access still limit real-world benefits.

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Evaluate recent evidence regarding the psychosocial barriers, exercise safety, and access-related challenges of using continuous glucose monitoring technology in physically active individuals with type 1 diabetes.
Conducted a focused literature review of peer-reviewed articles indexed within MEDLINE/PubMed published between 2022 and 2026.
Synthesized evidence evaluating real-time decision-making, hypoglycemia fear, quality of life, diabetes distress, and technology access.
Strong evidence indicates continuous glucose monitoring provides immediate clinical decision support and mitigates fear of exercise-induced hypoglycemia.
Predictive alarms and exercise-integrated sensor data reduce episodes of clinically significant post-exercise hypoglycemia, though direct evidence regarding generic quality of life and diabetes distress remains limited.
Sensor technology alone cannot eliminate behavioral barriers to exercise, and unequal healthcare access remains a major obstacle to real-world adoption.

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Krupski et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8fe94110c91c1e92620e24 https://doi.org/10.31435/ijitss.3(51).2026.5803

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August 27, 2026International Journal of Innovative Technologies in Social ScienceOpen Access

Continuous Glucose Monitoring as an Innovative Digital Health Technology in Type 1 Diabetes: Psychosocial Barriers, Physical Activity and Equity of Access

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Authors

AKAleksander Krupski MMMichal Marusza VSVictoria Stielow

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Overview

Literature review demonstrates that continuous glucose monitoring enhances exercise safety in type 1 diabetes, indicating that behavioral barriers and unequal access still limit real-world benefits.

Key Points

Evaluate recent evidence regarding the psychosocial barriers, exercise safety, and access-related challenges of using continuous glucose monitoring technology in physically active individuals with type 1 diabetes.
Conducted a focused literature review of peer-reviewed articles indexed within MEDLINE/PubMed published between 2022 and 2026.
Synthesized evidence evaluating real-time decision-making, hypoglycemia fear, quality of life, diabetes distress, and technology access.
Strong evidence indicates continuous glucose monitoring provides immediate clinical decision support and mitigates fear of exercise-induced hypoglycemia.
Predictive alarms and exercise-integrated sensor data reduce episodes of clinically significant post-exercise hypoglycemia, though direct evidence regarding generic quality of life and diabetes distress remains limited.
Sensor technology alone cannot eliminate behavioral barriers to exercise, and unequal healthcare access remains a major obstacle to real-world adoption.

Cite This Study

Krupski et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8fe94110c91c1e92620e24 https://doi.org/10.31435/ijitss.3(51).2026.5803

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