ECRES is a prototype software for calculating the amount of carbohydrates needed by a given subject to perform a certain physical activity.

It runs on a web server and is accessible by Internet or SMS.

The metabolism of a diabetic subject is very sensitive to any variation, so, when registering to the service, several parameters have to be inserted, and in particular:

  • characteristics of the subject (age, weight, sex);
  • characteristics of the therapy (time, amount and type of insulin, and amount of carbohydrates of each meal; time, amount and type of basal insulin).

Based on these parameters, some curves representing the level of insulin during the day are calculated.

Whenever the subjects wants to start a session of activity, he/she is asked to specify some more information:

  • characteristics of the activity (duration, intensity, time of the day);
  • current state (glycemia, fraction of usual insulin effectively injected).

The system then replies with the grams of necessary carbohydrates and some additional information.

We have also developed a prototype app for Android mobile phones. In this case, the algorithm runs on the phone (no query is done to the web server): similarly to the web version, after the user has provided some information about the excercise to be done, the system replies with the grams of necessary carbohydrates.


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