Continuous glucose monitoring in a healthy population: understanding the post-prandial glycemic response in individuals without diabetes mellitus

Functionalization of Carbon Nanofibers with an Aromatic Diamine: Toward a Simple Electrochemical-Based Sensing Platform for the Selective Sensing of Glucose

“…Glucose is an aldose monosaccharide that plays a fundamental role in the processes of photosynthesis and respiration, also serving as an energy reserve and a metabolic fuel of mammalian cells . Glucose monitoring allows the detection of changes in blood concentrations in response to diet, exercise, medications, and disease processes associated with glucose fluctuations, such as diabetes mellitus. , High or low blood glucose levels can result in life-threatening complications that include heart and kidney diseases, retinopathy, decreased quality of life, expensive surgeries, or even death . Furthermore, as a component of more complex structures such as polysaccharides and glucosides, glucose plays an important role in energy storage and as components of plant cell walls. , Due to its pivotal role in biological mechanisms, the quantification of this sugar is of great interest not only for the diagnosis and control of human diseases, including diabetes, but also for the monitoring of mammalian cell growth and for the analysis of agricultural products to ensure food quality and safety. , Despite a variety of glucose sensor devices being available, also being on the market from a long time, the development of electrochemical sensors for the determination of glucose is still investigated today. , Enzymatic sensors for the determination of glucose are widely used in the clinical field, − but they have several limitations as the measurements should be carried in physiological conditions of temperature and pH to avoid the degradation of the enzyme recognition layer .…”

“… 1 Glucose monitoring allows the detection of changes in blood concentrations in response to diet, exercise, medications, and disease processes associated with glucose fluctuations, such as diabetes mellitus. 2 , 3 High or low blood glucose levels can result in life-threatening complications that include heart and kidney diseases, retinopathy, decreased quality of life, expensive surgeries, or even death. 4 Furthermore, as a component of more complex structures such as polysaccharides and glucosides, glucose plays an important role in energy storage and as components of plant cell walls.…”