Published clinical guidelines
Blood glucose ranges
Five bands. Every boundary is taken from published guidance, and the source for each is named beside it.
- Very low — below 54 mg/dL.
- American Diabetes Association. Standards of Care in Diabetes, Section 6 — level 2 hypoglycaemia.
- Low — below 70 mg/dL.
- ADA Standards of Care, Section 6; International Hypoglycaemia Study Group. Glucose Concentrations of Less Than 3.0 mmol/L (54 mg/dL) Should Be Reported in Clinical Trials, 2017; RSSDI-ESI Clinical Practice Recommendations for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus 2020, International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries 2020;40(Suppl 1), doi.org/10.1007/s13410-020-00819-2 — level 1 hypoglycaemia alert value, 70 mg/dL or below.
- In range — 70 to 180 mg/dL.
- Battelino T, et al. Clinical Targets for Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data Interpretation: Recommendations From the International Consensus on Time in Range. Diabetes Care 2019;42(8):1593–1603, doi.org/10.2337/dci19-0028 — target range for Time in Range.
- High — above 180 mg/dL.
- Battelino 2019 — Time Above Range level 1. ADA Standards of Care — postprandial target below 180 mg/dL.
- Critical — above 250 mg/dL.
- Battelino 2019 — Time Above Range level 2, very high.
Activity when glucose is high
American Diabetes Association. Physical Activity/Exercise and Diabetes: A Position Statement. Diabetes Care 2016;39(11):2065–2079.
Body mass index
The app uses the Asian-Indian cut-offs — overweight from 23.0 and obesity from 25.0 — which are lower than the international ones.
Consensus Statement for Diagnosis of Obesity, Abdominal Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome for Asian Indians. Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 2009.
Food and nutrition values
Nutrition values in the food library are estimates compiled for common dishes. They are not taken from a published food composition table. Dishes the app does not recognise are estimated for that meal only. Treat all nutrition figures in the app as approximate.
Dishes the app did not recognise are estimated for that meal and are not taken from these tables. The app says so on the meal itself.