Closing the Loop in Adults With Sub-optimally Controlled Type 1 Diabetes Under Free Living Conditions

Summary

The main objective of this study is to determine whether day and night closed-loop insulin delivery for 12 weeks under free living conditions is superior to addition of real-time continuous glucose monitoring in adults with type 1 diabetes and sub-optimal glucose control on insulin pump therapy.

This is an open-label, multi centre, randomised, crossover design study, involving a 6 to 8 week run-in period, during which glucose control will be optimised by a professional pump educator, followed by two 3 months study periods during which glucose levels will be controlled either by an automated closed-loop system or by subjects usual insulin pump therapy augmented with real-time continuous glucose monitoring in random order. A total of up to 42 adults (aiming for 30 completed subjects) aged 18 years and older with T1D on insulin pump therapy will be recruited through diabetes clinics and other established methods in participating centres. Subjects who drop out of the study within the first 6 weeks of the first intervention arm will be replaced.

Subjects will receive appropriate training in the safe use of closed-loop insulin delivery system. Subjects will have regular contact with the study team during the home study phase including 24/7 telephone support. Subjects will be discouraged from international travel during the first two weeks of closed-loop use.

The primary outcome is time spent in target range between 3.9 and 10.0 mmol/L as recorded by CGM (adjusted for potential over-estimation) during home stay. Secondary outcomes are the HbA1c, time spent with glucose levels above and below target, as recorded by CGM, and other CGM-based metrics.

Conditions

• Type 1 Diabetes

Interventions

DEVICE

Florence D2A or similar closed loop glucose control system

Subject's glucose level will be controlled by the Florence D2A or similar automated closed loop glucose control system. The system comprises of FreeStyle Navigator 2 ® Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) System (Abbott Diabetes Care, Alameda, CA, USA), Dana R Diabecare subcutaneous insulin infusion pump (Sooil Corp. Seoul, South Korea)or similar insulin pump, and MPC-based glucose control algorithm running on a smartphone

DEVICE

CSII with real-time CGM

Subject glucose level controlled by usual insulin pump therapy in conjunction with real time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Profil Institut für Stoffwechselforschung GmbH

  collaborator INDUSTRY

• Medical University of Graz

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Cambridge

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Roman Hovorka, PhD · University of Cambridge

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-04-30

Primary Completion

2015-05-31

Completion

2015-05-31

Countries

• Austria
• Germany
• United Kingdom

Study Locations