US 5,840,020 A · Monitoring method and a monitoring equipment

Abstract

Monitoring equipment including means for receiving a measurement result indicating the patient's blood glucose level, and for staring it in a first memory means. In order to improve and facilitate the treatment of the patient, the monitoring equipment further includes means for receiving data concerning the patient's diet, medication and physical strain, and for storing it in the first memory means, data processing means for calculating a predictive value on the basis of the data stored in the first memory means, and corrector means for calculating the difference between the calculated predictive value and the patient's actual blood glucose level, and for correcting the mathematical model utilized to calculate the predictive value in order to take into account the aforementioned difference in subsequent calculations of predictive values.

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Dependent claims

A method for predicting the glucose level in a patient's bloods, the method comprising the steps of:

formulating an adaptive mathematical model about the behavior of the patient's blood glucose level, the model taking into account at least the patient's diet, medication and physical strain and providing predictive values;
providing the patient with means for utilizing said mathematical model, so that the patient can himself monitor and predict the effect of the treatment he is to follow on the behavior of his blood glucose level;
and
comparing the predictive values provided by the model to measured glucose levels and correcting the mathematical model on the basis of the result of said comparison.

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A monitoring equipment for predicting the glucose level in a patient's blood, the equipment comprising:

means for receiving a measurement result indicating the glucose level in a sample of the patient's blood and for storing the measurement result in a first memory means together with data indicating the moment of the measurement,
means for receiving data concerning at least the patient's diet, medication and physical strain and for storing the received data in the first memory means,
data processing means for calculating a predictive value using a mathematical model taking into account the data stored in the first memory means, the predictive value indicating the patient's predicted blood glucose level at a predetermined moment, and
corrector means for calculating the difference between the calculated predictive value and the patient's actual blood glucose level measured at said predetermined moment, and for correcting the mathematical model utilized by the data processing means to calculate a predictive value in order to take into account said difference in subsequent calculations of predictive values.

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Monitoring method and a monitoring equipment

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