Juniper Publishers-Journal of Diabetes Obesity Journal

CURRENT RESEARCH IN DIABETES & OBESITY JOURNAL JUNIPER PUBLISHERS Authored by Kohnert KD Abstract Blood glucose control is a fundamental element in preventing micro- and macrovascular complications of diabetes. Many patients with diabetes can improve glycemic control by use of continuous glucose monitoring. Analysis of continuously monitored data further allows glucose dysregulation to reveal early in the development of diabetes or the metabolic syndrome and response to therapeutic intervention. But traditional measures of glycemia currently used in clinical practice are insufficient to characterize the various aspects of glucose profile complexity that may be important in different states of dysglycemia and the design of optimal antidiabetes therapy. This article discusses several dynamical complexity measures, their association with metabolic characteristics, and possible implications for glucose control. Abbreviations: CGM: Continuous

CURRENT RESEARCH IN DIABETES & OBESITY JOURNAL JUNIPER PUBLISHERS Authored by Mariusz Jaworski Introduction In the World a significant percentage of people are characterized by unhealthy lifestyle, especially bad food habits, and physical inactivity. This unhealthy lifestyle could be a cause of many lifestyle diseases or diseases of civilization. If epidemiological date is anything to go by the most common lifestyle diseases are obesity, and diabetes [ 1 , 2 ]. Epidemiological data suggest that about 8.5% of adults aged 18 and older had diabetes in 2014. In the same year, high blood glucose was the cause of another 2.2 million deaths. Moreover, it is reported that overweight and obesity account for an estimated 8%-15% of the burden of disease in industrialized countries. What is more, World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that more than 1.9 billion adults aged 18 and older were overweight in 2014. In the same year, about 13% of the world'