REAL-TIME CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING BASED METHOD TO TRIGGER CARBOHYDRATES ASSUMPTION TO REVENT/MITIGATE HYPOGLYCEMIC EVENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20220071519A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-10

    申请号:US17291158

    申请日:2019-11-06

    Applicant: DexCom, Inc.

    Abstract: Mitigation of the risk of prolonged hypoglycemia in T1D management requires patient to assume a small dose of fast-acting carbohydrates, called hypotreatment (HT), as soon as hypoglycemia is detected. This invention consists in a method that, on the basis of the datastream generated by a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensor, triggers the assumption of preventive HTs i.e., snacks that, being quickly absorbed into the circulation, avoid, or at least mitigate, a forthcoming hypoglycemic event. The method resorts to the “dynamic risk” (DR) non-linear function, which combines current glycemia with its rate-of-change provided by CGM, adapted to distinguish the severity of the about-to-happen hypoglycemia. The method has been tested in a simulated realistic scenario. Results show that the administration of an HT in advance, as triggered by the new method, brings to a strong reduction of the time that a patient would have spent in hypoglycemia assuming the HT at hypoglycemic threshold crossing.

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