Design of Automatic Insulin Dosage Indicator for Diabetic Patients Using BMI

Kanimozhi R,Saravanakumar S

doi:10.46532/ijaict-2020017

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus is a serious and chronic health disease. It occurs in all age group of people, especially in adults and aged persons. It is important to measure blood glucose level frequently for the diabetes affected persons which in need to determine the appropriate insulin dosage. Along with this, the continuous glucose monitoring is vital to know whether the glucose level is in normal range. The conventional method used to measure the glucose level in blood is invasive which is infectious and a painful process. Nowadays, the non-invasive blood glucose monitoring methods are widely used. In this work, the blood glucose level is measured non-invasively using IR sensor. Besides that, the indication of insulin dosage to be taken is done by determining blood glucose concentration (non- invasively) and comparing it with Body Mass Index (BMI) of the patient. The implementation is based on the variations in the intensity of the IR LED, BMI and blood density. Themethod ismore reliable than the invasive techniques.

Highlights

Diabetes Mellitus is delineated as autoimmune demolition of beta cells produced by pancreas which secretes insulin for the conversion of glucose into energy
The insulin is given by considering both Body Mass Index (BMI) and glucose eel for each person, because it varies according to their physical activities, diet, gene, etc
The proposed design measures the blood glucose concentration using IR LED and the PIC controller determines the amount of insulin dosage by comparing the BMI and blood density of the patient

Summary

Introduction

Diabetes Mellitus is delineated as autoimmune demolition of beta cells produced by pancreas which secretes insulin for the conversion of glucose into energy. The destruction of such cells leads to continuous dependency on exogenous insulin and results in several hazardous diseases like coma, kidney failure, stroke, blindness and sometimes death might be occurred. According to the statistics of 2017, china is ranked first with high population of 114 million diabetes affected persons [1][2][3]. Heart diseases and nerve damage occurs due to smoking. To know the pattern of glucose changes of a diabetic patient, concentration of glucose in blood needs to be monitored.

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