Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Glucose Variability

2013; American Diabetes Association; Volume: 62; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2337/db12-1396

ISSN

1939-327X

Autores

F. John Service,

Tópico(s)

Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer

Resumo

The proposed contribution of glucose variability to the development of the complications of diabetes beyond that of glycemic exposure is supported by reports that oxidative stress, the putative mediator of such complications, is greater for intermittent as opposed to sustained hyperglycemia. Variability of glycemia in ambulatory conditions defined as the deviation from steady state is a phenomenon of normal physiology. Comprehensive recording of glycemia is required for the generation of any measurement of glucose variability. To avoid distortion of variability to that of glycemic exposure, its calculation should be devoid of a time component.

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