Personal blood glucose analysers

Abstract

Blood glucose monitoring is the first tool for evaluating the day-by-day evolution of diabetes. In this sense, the development of devices that allow the accurate, sensitive, and fast decentralized monitoring of blood glucose levels has been a key aspect in the technology of commercial biosensors and has represented a big success in the management of diabetes, both for the physicians and for the patients. This chapter summarizes the most important hits of the last six decades in the development of point-of-care devices that made possible the self-monitoring of blood glucose either in a noncontinuous or continuous way, with a critical comparison of the different contributions.