Complexity of diabetes: More to tiny fluctuations in blood sugar than meets the eye

Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 05:32 in Health & Medicine

For millions of people in the United States living with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, measuring the daily rise and fall of blood glucose (sugar) is a way of life. Now a group of researchers has discovered that there may be more to tiny fluctuations in blood sugar than meets the eye -- in fact, the largely-ignored instantaneous dynamics may provide a wealth of information encoded in the small, seemingly inconsequential ups and downs of blood sugar.

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