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Diabetes is a severe disease. For a long time insulin has been used to treat patients and, although insulin pumps are successful, no automatic optimised treatment exists. We do not have the possibility of measuring blood glucose level continuously. Optimal control in real time is therefore impossible. A great deal of experimental data on patients is available and it is easy to improve the medical treatment, based on the experience gained by physicians. Particularly, one hopes to avoid large variations in blood glucose level. Optimization methods may be used to maintain a steady level. We shall begin with experiments on dogs described in [44].
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© 1986 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Cherruault, Y. (1986). Blood Glucose Regulation. In: Mathematical Modelling in Biomedicine. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5492-2_7
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