A Pivotal Study to Evaluate Enlite™ Sensor Performance With iPro™2 in China
Phase: NA
Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus
Sponsor: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.

 
Study Title A Pivotal Study to Evaluate Enlite™ Sensor Performance with iPro™2 in China 
NCT Number NCT03417466 
Document Description Study Protocol (Version B) 
Document Date 18-SEP-2017 
 

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