Hypoglycemia risk and glucose variability indices derived from routine self-monitoring of blood glucose are related to laboratory measures of insulin sensitivity and epinephrine counterregulation

Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-17

  Pitsillides, Achilleas N ^a   Anderson, Stacey M ^b   Kovatchev, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; GLUCOSE; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF MONITORING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650587547     PISSN: 15209156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dia.2010.0103     Document Type: Article

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