ReviewJournal of diabetes science and technology2012
The challenges of measuring glycemic variability.
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- Sensitivity of Traditional and Risk-Based Glycemic Variability Measures to the Effect of Glucose-Lowering Treatment in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2015Pooled it
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- A New Analysis Tool for Continuous Glucose Monitor Data.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2022Article
- (Pre)diabetes, glycemia, and daily glucose variability are associated with retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in The Maastricht Study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Patient-Tailored Decision Support System Improves Short- and Long-Term Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2022Observational
- Physical Activity, Glycemic Variability, and Parental Hypoglycemia Fear in Preschoolers With Type 1 Diabetes.Pediatric exercise science · 2022Article
- Glycaemic Variability and Hyperglycaemia as Prognostic Markers of Major Cardiovascular Events in Diabetic Patients Hospitalised in Cardiology Intensive Care Unit for Acute Heart Failure.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Perspectives of glycemic variability in diabetic neuropathy: a comprehensive review.Communications biology · 2021Review
- Retrospective Evaluation on the Use of a New Polysaccharide Complex in Managing Paediatric Type 1 Diabetes with Metabolic Syndrome (MetS).Nutrients · 2021Article
- Greater daily glucose variability and lower time in range assessed with continuous glucose monitoring are associated with greater aortic stiffness: The Maastricht Study.Diabetologia · 2021Article
- Glycemic variability is associated with poor outcomes in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients.Pediatric blood & cancer · 2020Article
- Simple Linear Support Vector Machine Classifier Can Distinguish Impaired Glucose Tolerance Versus Type 2 Diabetes Using a Reduced Set of CGM-Based Glycemic Variability Indices.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2020Article
- Independent Association of Glucose Variability With Hospital Mortality in Adult Intensive Care Patients: Results From the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation Binational Registry.Critical care explorations · 2019Article
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- Glycemic Variability: Risk Factors, Assessment, and Control.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2019Review
- Different Indexes of Glycemic Variability as Identifiers of Patients with Risk of Hypoglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2018Article
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Abstract
This commentary reviews several of the challenges encountered when attempting to quantify glycemic variability and correlate it with risk of diabetes complications. These challenges include (1) immaturity of the field, including problems of data accuracy, precision, reliability, cost, and availability; (2) larger relative error in the estimates of glycemic variability than in the estimates of the mean glucose; (3) high correlation between glycemic variability and mean glucose level; (4) multiplicity of measures; (5) correlation of the multiple measures; (6) duplication or reinvention of methods; (7) confusion of measures of glycemic variability with measures of quality of glycemic control; (8) the problem of multiple comparisons when assessing relationships among multiple measures of variability and multiple clinical end points; and (9) differing needs for routine clinical practice and clinical research applications.
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