in reply to Data averages by time of day

Non-perlish question:How long have you played the glucose monitoring game?

I am asking because most glucose monitors allow a doctor's office to grab the information right from themonitor and print out a nice set of graphs for the M.D..

Assuming the doc has done an A1C, and now wants more detailed information, he may not need a perl solution.

Bet you can't guess why I am posting this. Yup, I played with the numbers and made a cool presentation and so on, then the doc plugged the monitor in, printed his graphs and tada! My app was obsolete. Still a fun problem though.

The information that might add a lot to the readings is time since medication and time since eating and time since exercising.

Good luck!

Enjoy!
Dageek

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Re: Re: Data averages by time of day
by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Feb 26, 2004 at 20:11 UTC

        Non-perlish question:How long have you played the glucose monitoring game?

    For about 15 years now. My experiences have been very mixed on this score vs. a vs. the doctor. None of the doctors I've visited had the technology to plug my meter in (One Touch Profile) and download the results.

    My current doctor, (soon to be my ex-doctor), didn't even look the reports I generated for him. I am in the throws of going to a new one but I want to go in "armed and dangerous."

    Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
    Peter at Berghold dot Net
       Dog trainer, dog agility exhibitor, brewer of fine Belgian style ales. Happiness is a warm, tired, contented dog curled up at your side and a good Belgian ale in your chalice.
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      Hi,
      I've been a diabetic for 20 years but only decided to start serious monitoring 3 years ago. I've been testing my blood 20-25 times a day for 3 years. Over that time I've switched from meter to meter and I'm now using the One Touch Ultra. It has some statistical analysis on it, but it's still poor (in my opinion). A few years ago I started with an Excel spreadsheet and it has evolved to a point where I find it to be very effective. It tracks a 24 hour period and has a graph. The user enters the time of the test and the reading. The sheet will calculate the velocity, acceleration and the jerk (the rate of change of acceleration) and has things like the day's average, mean and standard deviation. I've found that my doctor isn't interested in these numbers, but he does like the 7, 14, 30, 60 and 90 day averages that my meter produces. Anyway, if anyone is interested in my spreadsheet, I'll send it...
      Cheers,
      Trevor Keppel-Jones.
      tkjones@jetnet.ca
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