[Continuous glucose monitoring: which benefits?]

Continuous glucose monitoring is a recent technique which appears to be highly useful in diabetic patients, particularly in children and adolescents. Its potential interest to study unstable diabetes, to detect asymptomatic and nocturnal hypoglycaemias, to adapt and/or to adjust insulin treatment, etc. has lead to several recent clinical studies, conducted in various conditions. The different techniques, the studies conducted in children and adult diabetic patients, as well as the main current indications for continuous glucose monitoring are described in this article.