Combining continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pumps to automatically tune the basal insulin infusion in diabetes therapy: a review

Abstract For individuals affected by Type 1 diabetes (T1D), a chronic disease in which the pancreas does not produce any insulin, maintaining the blood glucose (BG) concentration as much as possible within the safety range (70–180 mg/dl) allows avoiding short- and long-term complications. The tuning...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Martina Vettoretti, Andrea Facchinetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-03-01
Series:BioMedical Engineering OnLine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12938-019-0658-x