Diabetes is a disease in which levels of blood glucose, also called blood sugar, are above normal. Normally, after a meal, the body breaks food down into glucose, which the blood carries to cells throughout the body. Cells use insulin, a hormone made in the pancreas, to help them convert blood glucose into energy. People develop diabetes because the pancreas does not make enough insulin or beca...

The most existing future technology is an outcome of the fields of computer science, electronics and Biology. Health inequalities have become the focus of a number of descriptive and analytical studies. One of the health related problem is diabetes. Diabetes at its serious stage leads to blindness. Monitoring glucose level in blood is one preventive measure to check diabetes. Increase in Glucos...

A mechanical means to restore euglycemica in diabetes has long been considered achievable, yet a portable and widely adopted artificial pancreas system has not been realized.1,2 The Artificial Pancreas Consortium was established in 2006 as part of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) Artificial Pancreas Project, a multimillion dollar, multiyear initiative with a missio...

Without a continuous supply of nutrients, the brain dies within a few minutes. Blood flow and glucose uptake are so tightly coupled to neuronal function that techniques which image these processes (e.g. PET) are valuable monitors of neuronal activity. However, in order to understand brain metabolism completely, and to find specific molecular targets for therapeutic intervention, it is also esse...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of hypertension comorbid with diabetes is a significant health care issue. Use of the home blood pressure monitor (HBPM) for aiding in the control of hypertension is noteworthy because of benefits that accrue from following a home measurement regimen. To be usable by blind and visually impaired patients, HBPMs must have speech output to convey all screen information, a...

BACKGROUND Automatic blood pressure monitoring conducted at home is increasingly used in the diagnosis and management of hypertension. We assessed the adequacy of existing British Hypertension Society (BHS) and Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) validation standards for automatic blood pressure monitoring devices. SUBJECT AND METHODS A theoretical study and an e...

Self monitoring of blood glucose is the cornerstone of diabetes management. However, the data obtained by self monitoring of blood glucose have rarely been used with the highest advantage. Few physicians routinely download data from memory-equipped glucose meters and analyse these data systematically at the time of patient visits. There is a need for improved methods for the display and analysi...

Evidence indicates that hospitalized patients with hyperglycemia do not benefit from tight blood glucose control. Maintaining a blood glucose level of less than 180 mg per dL (9.99 mmol per L) will minimize symptoms of hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia without adversely affecting patient-oriented health outcomes. In the absence of modifying factors, physicians should continue patients' at-home dia...

The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) (1) would not have beenpossiblewithout the advent of several technologies, including selfmonitoring of blood glucose (SMBG). After the results of that landmark studywere reported in 1993, SMBG was considered the standard of care for type 1 diabetic patients. The same was true for insulinrequiring type 2 diabetic patients after the report of th...