ABSTRACT
Software for assisting patients with diabetes can be clustered into three groups: 1) software for daily logs of food intake and computation of the insulin dose to be administered based on recent food consumption; 2) software for interpreting data collected from a subject; and 3) simulation software for illustrating dynamic variations in blood-glucose concentration. Studying the variations in blood-glucose and insulin concentrations in response to external inputs, such as food intake or insulin injection, is important, especially for new patients, in order to understand the effects of food type and amount consumed and the effects of insulin type, dose, and time of administration relative to food-intake time.
