Reliability of SymptomBlood Glucose Relationships Among InsulinDependent Adult Diabetics

Symptoms and blood glucose levels were recorded by 23 insulindependent diabetics during three separate intervals. Each interval spanned 710 days, involving 40 symptomblood glucose recordings. Each symptom's ratings were correlated with their respective blood glucose recording to yield a separate symptomblood glucose correlation for each interval. These separate symptomblood glucose relationships were themselves correlated across the three intervals to assess the temporal stability of the symptomblood glucose relationships. Reliability was found to be variable. Possible explanations for this variability are discussed.