How these Boston Marathon runners kept their diabetes in check with Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre monitor

When Courtney Duckworth was first diagnosed with Type I diabetes, her glucometer was the size of a cell phone and she pricked her fingers nearly 12 times each day to keep track of her blood sugar.

“I couldn’t feel the things that I touched because I had so many scabs,” she told Drug Delivery Business News.

This week, she ran the Boston Marathon using Abbott‘s (NYSE:ABT) FreeStyle Libre – a continuous glucose monitor that allows her to test her blood sugar simply by swiping her phone over a small sensor worn on her upper arm.

Duckworth was diagnosed with Type I diabetes when she was just 10 years old. A competitive figure skater, she dreamed of one day competing at the Olympics. At 24 years old, Duckworth is now a published author and an avid athlete. She ran her first Boston Marathon in 2015 with a conventional meter, pricking her fingers along the way.

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