Blood Glucose Concentration Measurement Device (BGM)
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A Blood Glucose Concentration Measurement Device (BGM) is a medical device for determining approximate blood glucose concentration (a biomarker).
- Context:
- It can (typically) be used for Blood Glucose Monitoring to detect hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia.
- It can be associated to a Blood Glucose Meter Accuracy.
- It can range from being a Segmented-display meter to being a Dot Matrix-display meter.
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- Example(s):
- an Accu-Chek Aviva Plus (discontinued) [1].
- an Accu-Check Guide [2].
- an Accu-Check Guide Me [3].
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- See: Diabetic Hypoglycemia, Glucose, Blood, Diabetes Mellitus, Hypoglycemia, Blood Lancet.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose_meter Retrieved:2021-10-26.
- A glucose meter, also referred to as a "glucometer", is a medical device for determining the approximate concentration of glucose in the blood. It can also be a strip of glucose paper dipped into a substance and measured to the glucose chart. It is a key element of home blood glucose monitoring (HBGM) by people with diabetes mellitus or hypoglycemia. A small drop of blood, obtained by pricking the skin with a lancet, is placed on a disposable test strip that the meter reads and uses to calculate the blood glucose level. The meter then displays the level in units of mg/dL or mmol/L.
Since approximately 1980, a primary goal of the management of type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus has been achieving closer-to-normal levels of glucose in the blood for as much of the time as possible, guided by HBGM several times a day. The benefits include a reduction in the occurrence rate and severity of long-term complications from hyperglycemia as well as a reduction in the short-term, potentially life-threatening complications of hypoglycemia.
- A glucose meter, also referred to as a "glucometer", is a medical device for determining the approximate concentration of glucose in the blood. It can also be a strip of glucose paper dipped into a substance and measured to the glucose chart. It is a key element of home blood glucose monitoring (HBGM) by people with diabetes mellitus or hypoglycemia. A small drop of blood, obtained by pricking the skin with a lancet, is placed on a disposable test strip that the meter reads and uses to calculate the blood glucose level. The meter then displays the level in units of mg/dL or mmol/L.
2015
- (Lan et al., 2015) ⇒ Tian Lan, Yu Xiang, and Yi Lu. (2015). “Detection of Protein Biomarker Using a Blood Glucose Meter.” In: Mobile Health Technologies, pp. 99-109 . Humana Press, New York, NY,
- QUOTE: ... To lower the costs and shorten the cycles of developing new mHealth technologies that can be generally applied to a wide range of biomarkers, we proposed and demonstrated an alternative approach of repurposing existing technologies and devices for a much wider range of applications. The blood glucose meter (BGM) is an excellent platform to leverage, because it has gone through decades of research and development, making the current generation of BGMs accurate, well designed for simple operation, low cost, and portable. More importantly, several network-connected smartphone-compatible BGMs [3–5] are available and some of them have already been approved by FDA. In fact, these network-connected BGMs account for the majority of current mHealth devices capable of monitoring biomarkers [1]. Furthermore, BGM technologies are constantly being improved due to the growing number of diabetes [6]. By taking advantage of this highly developed and widely available mHealth device, we and others have developed novel methodologies to transform the binding of non-glucose biomarkers by either aptamers or antibodies into glucose so that network-connected smartphone-compatible BGMs can be used to detect and monitor a wide range of targets, such as metal ions, small organic molecules, protein markers, and nucleic acids