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. 2020 Oct 6;22(10):709–718. doi: 10.1089/dia.2019.0411

Table 2.

Mean Number of Daily Meals and Dosing Behaviors from Baseline to After Five Health Care Professional Visits

  Baseline level [95% CI]
Visit ≥5 level [95% CI]
Estimated relative change [95% CI] P
Daily meals (n) Proportion of 3 meals Daily meals (n) Proportion of 3 meals
MBD 0.74 [0.62; 0.88] 24.7% [20.8; 29.4] 0.42 [0.30; 0.60] 14.1% [9.9; 19.9] −43.1% [−60.5; −18.0] 0.002
“On-time” dose 0.57 [0.48; 0.69] 19.1% [15.9; 23.0] 0.59 [0.43; 0.80] 19.6% [14.5; 26.7] 2.7% [−24.7; 40.2] 0.865
Undetected mealsa 1.54 [1.37; 1.70] 51.5% [45.6; 56.7] 1.94 [1.69; 2.14] 64.6% [56.4; 71.2] 25.4% [8.7; 43.5] 0.003

Estimated mean data and 95% CI based on a mixed Poisson model, with visit number (baseline, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5+) as fixed effect and participant and visit nested in participant as random effects.

a

Assuming three meals per day on average.

CI, confidence interval; HCP, health care professional; MBD, missed bolus dose; N, number.