Journal of diabetes science and technology
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J Diabetes Sci Technol · May 2017
Reliability of Trained Dogs to Alert to Hypoglycemia in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes.
We examined the reliability of trained dogs to alert to hypoglycemia in individuals with type 1 diabetes. ⋯ This is the first study evaluating reliability of trained dogs to alert to hypoglycemia under real-life conditions. Trained dogs often alert a human companion to otherwise unknown hypoglycemia; however due to high false-positive rate, a dog alert alone is unlikely to be helpful in differentiating hypo-/hyper-/euglycemia. CGM often detects hypoglycemia before a trained dog by a clinically significant margin.