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The technology is definately more than cool, hopefully some of that tech can be repurposed into something that can make it clinically. Worth noting, tear gluco
by thomasfedb 8y ago
The technology is definately more than cool, hopefully some of that tech can be repurposed into something that can make it clinically.
Worth noting, tear glucose wouldn't need to be correlated in a linear fashion with BGL, as long as there was a way to derive BGL from tear glucose data.
- leemailll 8y agoI think the opposite is true. To achieve medical usage the correlation should be linear. If this is not the case, a small variation of glucose could lead to big jump in the reading, which would decrease the accuracy. In real life, most of the biological system or test exist in a buffered environment, which often show a range of linear relationship for substrates, and tests are often performed by adjusting into such linear range.
- whatshisface 8y agoIf a small variation in glucose led to a big jump in the reading, then the glucose calculation would end up with greater precision.
- cycrutchfield 8y agoThat is probably the catch. Tear glucose may not be all that well correlated with blood glucose.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoAside, spelling: it's definite, like finite/infinite. Think "the finite is more definite".
- jjoonathan 8y agoThe term "correlated" is often used as shorthand for having significant mutual information. The possibility of a nonlinear relationship is lost on very few.