Wearable continuous glucose monitoring sensors: A revolution in diabetes treatment

Electronics (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Cappon, Giacomo ^a   Acciaroli, Giada ^a   Vettoretti, Martina ^a   Facchinetti, Andrea ^a   Sparacino, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Big data analytics; Decision support; Personalized medicine; Proactive medicine; Sensor calibration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029010171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/electronics6030065     Document Type: Article

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