TY - GEN
T1 - Electronic disease surveillance for sensitive population groups - The diabetics case study
AU - Botsis, Taxiarchis
AU - Hejlesen, Ole
AU - Bellika, Johan Gustav
AU - Hartvigsen, Gunnar
N1 - Funding Information:
1 Corresponding author: Taxiarchis Botsis, Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway. E-mail address: [email protected] 2 This work was carried out during the tenure of an ERCIM “Alain Bensoussan” Fellowship Programme. 3 This work was partly funded by the Research Council of Norway, Project No: 174934.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Diabetics are quite susceptible to infectious diseases and can easily spread them under certain circumstances. Their blood glucose levels are increased after infection and this can cause a hyperglycemic crisis. Our study indicates that this increase results in glucosylated hemoglobin elevation, even when a diabetic is monitored closely and his/her blood glucose is under tight control. Thus, it is important to detect infections at the very early stages of disease progression in order to aid the patient. For this purpose, an electronic Disease Surveillance System could be developed to collect and analyze blood glucose data. Generally, we could extend the use of blood glucose data to the implementation of disease surveillance systems for the general population.
AB - Diabetics are quite susceptible to infectious diseases and can easily spread them under certain circumstances. Their blood glucose levels are increased after infection and this can cause a hyperglycemic crisis. Our study indicates that this increase results in glucosylated hemoglobin elevation, even when a diabetic is monitored closely and his/her blood glucose is under tight control. Thus, it is important to detect infections at the very early stages of disease progression in order to aid the patient. For this purpose, an electronic Disease Surveillance System could be developed to collect and analyze blood glucose data. Generally, we could extend the use of blood glucose data to the implementation of disease surveillance systems for the general population.
KW - Blood glucose
KW - Diabetics
KW - Disease surveillance
KW - Early detection
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M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 18487758
AN - SCOPUS:44349131596
SN - 9781586038649
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 365
EP - 370
BT - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
PB - IOS Press
ER -