Hypoglycemia is a condition with the blood glucose level below the threshold of 70 mg/dL [1] and is considered serious adverse effect of insulin based treatment for type1 diabetes (T1D) patients. One of the earliest manifestations of hypoglycemia is the involuntary shaking of the human body such as the fingertips.
Paper:
R. McCrimmon, “Glucose Sensing During Hypoglycemia: Lessons From the Lab,” Diabetes Care, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 1357–1363, Aug. 2009.
American Diabetes Association Workgroup on Hypoglycemia, “Defining and Reporting Hypoglycemia in Diabetes: A report from the American Diabetes Association Workgroup on Hypoglycemia,” Diabetes Care, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1245–1249, May 2005.
There have been some interesting applications to detect and quantify tremor in Parkinson's patients using simple performance tests delivered using a smartphone - for example measuring tremor based on smartphone accelerometer sensor readings recorded while the phone is held flat in the hand. A lot of work has been done by Roche Pharmaceuticals on this topic. See Article Evaluation of smartphone-based testing to generate explorato...
for example. It may be possible you can leverage the same approach to look at hypoglycaemia related tremor.- Badges
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