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VARIABILITE GLYCEMIQUE [2 records]

Record 1 2022-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • Endocrine System and Metabolism
OBS

Reported as % coefficient of variation (%CV) = standard deviation/mean glucose[.]

Key term(s)
  • glycaemic variability

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Systèmes endocrinien et métabolique
OBS

Indiquée par le coefficient de variation (CV) = écart-type/moyenne glycémique[.]

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Injections, Tubing and Transfusions (Medicine)
CONT

Absorption is faster when insulin is injected into the abdomen than into an extremity, and is faster in an upper than in a lower limb. Moreover, absorption is accelerated if it is injected into an extremity that is subsequently involved in exercise or if the injection site is massaged or warmed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Injections, tubages et transfusions (Médecine)
CONT

Le choix du site d’injection est un élément essentiel à la qualité du contrôle glycémique. En effet, un des principaux écueils du traitement actuel par insuline est qu'il existe une grande variabilité de la vitesse à laquelle l'insuline injectée est absorbée. [...] on sait maintenant que le site d’injection est un des facteurs expliquant cette variabilité

Spanish

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