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Creating the Artificial Pancreas: This Wearable Device Senses Blood Glucose and Administers Insulin Accordingly.
- Source :
- IEEE Spectrum; Dec2021, Vol. 58 Issue 12, p38-43, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- In some ways, this is a family story. Peter Kovatchev was a naval engineer who raised his son, Boris, as a problem solver, and who built model ships with his granddaughter, Anna. He also suffered from a form of diabetes in which the pancreas cannot make enough insulin. To control the concentration of glucose in his blood, he had to inject insulin several times a day, using a syringe that he kept in a small metal box in our family's refrigerator. But although he tried to administer the right amount of insulin at the right times, his blood-glucose control was quite poor. He passed away from diabetes-related complications in 2002. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00189235
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Spectrum
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 154075081
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2021.9641771