The use of such a device for the evaluation of a BG algorithm even allows us to label the GPI measure as area-under-the-curve method (that incorporates the duration of glycemic deviations), since then a penalty is 'continuously' assigned to each BG (measured at each time instant, e.g., every minute) and since hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic deviations cannot balance each other.
For MS patients, the duration of symptoms (years±standard deviation [SD]), duration of diagnosis (years±SD), Expanded Disability Status Scale (mean±SD), and percentage not receiving disease-modifying therapies were 13.7±10, 9.9±7.8, 2.6±2.0, and 20%, respectively.
They found that reaction times for different velocities collapsed together when expressed in terms of the duration of the pre-deviation path rather than its spatial extent.
Only area-under-the-curve measures (like HGI) can potentially take into consideration the duration of these glycemic deviations under the assumption that the imposed (linear) relationship between the measurements approaches the real blood glucose dynamics.
Overall, the percentage of perpendicular-orientated calvarial osteoblasts significantly increased with the duration of dcEF stimulation, from 5±0.8% (Mean±standard deviation, start) to 56±2.2% (Mean±standard deviation, 5 h, Fig. 1G).
In a recent study by Reich et al. (2013), both nonspeech and speech stimuli were used in a paradigm where participants responded to the second syllable of a spondee or the duration of a tone, while irrelevant deviations were introduced by changing the first syllable of the spondee or its pitch, or the frequency of the tone.
Results: The duration of the upward phase ± standard deviation was longer in the pain group (1731±290ms vs 1489±187ms, P=.031).
A decrease of 20% in the duration of ventilator use (mean ± standard deviation (SD): 15 ± 5) and the length of hospital stay (mean ± SD: 15 ± 5) was assumed.
Based on the literature, the standard deviation of the duration of frequent cough was 5.5 days in patients with bronchitis and discoloured sputum.
