Investigating the value of glucodensity analysis of continuous glucose monitoring data in type 1 diabetes : an exploratory analysis

Copyright © 2023 Cui, Goldfine, Quinlan, James and Sverdlov..

Introduction: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices capture longitudinal data on interstitial glucose levels and are increasingly used to show the dynamics of diabetes metabolism. Given the complexity of CGM data, it is crucial to extract important patterns hidden in these data through efficient visualization and statistical analysis techniques.

Methods: In this paper, we adopted the concept of glucodensity, and using a subset of data from an ongoing clinical trial in pediatric individuals and young adults with new-onset type 1 diabetes, we performed a cluster analysis of glucodensities. We assessed the differences among the identified clusters using analysis of variance (ANOVA) with respect to residual pancreatic beta-cell function and some standard CGM-derived parameters such as time in range, time above range, and time below range.

Results: Distinct CGM data patterns were identified using cluster analysis based on glucodensities. Statistically significant differences were shown among the clusters with respect to baseline levels of pancreatic beta-cell function surrogate (C-peptide) and with respect to time in range and time above range.

Discussion: Our findings provide supportive evidence for the value of glucodensity in the analysis of CGM data. Some challenges in the modeling of CGM data include unbalanced data structure, missing observations, and many known and unknown confounders, which speaks to the importance of--and provides opportunities for--taking an approach integrating clinical, statistical, and data science expertise in the analysis of these data.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:4

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare - 4(2023) vom: 15., Seite 1244613

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cui, Elvis Han [VerfasserIn]
Goldfine, Allison B [VerfasserIn]
Quinlan, Michelle [VerfasserIn]
James, David A [VerfasserIn]
Sverdlov, Oleksandr [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

CGM
Functional data analysis
Glucodensity
Journal Article
Pharmacodynamics
Visualization

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Date Revised 28.09.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status Publisher

doi:

10.3389/fcdhc.2023.1244613

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362496374