Bolus calculator improves long-term metabolic control and reduces glucose variability in pump-treated patients with Type 1 diabetes

Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Lepore, G ^a   Dodesini, A R ^a   Nosari, I ^a   Scaranna, C ^a   Corsi, A ^a   Trevisan, R ^a  

^a OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN; INSULIN;

ADULT; AUTOMATION; BLOOD; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG EFFECT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSTRUMENTATION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN INFUSION; LETTER; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DRUG DOSAGE CALCULATIONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INFUSIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; INSULIN; INSULIN INFUSION SYSTEMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864061169     PISSN: 09394753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2012.04.001     Document Type: Letter

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