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Editorial
. 2024 Mar 1;47(3):344-345.
doi: 10.2337/dci23-0091.

Diffusion and Disparities: Rural Uptake of Continuous Glucose Monitors

Lauren M Mitchell  1 , Elbert S Huang  1
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Editorial

Diffusion and Disparities: Rural Uptake of Continuous Glucose Monitors

Lauren M Mitchell et al. Diabetes Care. .
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Duality of Interest. No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.

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Figure 1
A hypothetical S-shaped curve of diffusion based on Rogers’ work (7). This study and prior literature suggest that rural populations adopt new technologies later and that gaps in adoption persist with time.
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