Abstract
Background:
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease characterized by hyperglycemia that leads after many years to chronic micro vascular and macro vascular complications .Type 1 diabetes is a life-threatening chronic condition requiring continuous and life-long management that can be stressful for patients and their caregivers.
Objectives: is to evaluate the effectiveness of insulin pump therapy on glycemic control , and body mass index in Type 1 DM.
Patients and Method: this is retrospectively studied the profiles of 73patients were on insulin pump therapy (28 males and 45 females) attending insulin pump clinic at the National Diabetes& Endocrinology center in Tripoli, Libya, from the period of first January 2014 to last December 2017. Data collected included demographic, clinical,HBA1C level ,and body mass index before, at six months, and after one year of nsulin pump therapy use .

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