Patent ID: 8734347
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: A61B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A system for investigation of the metabolism of a human or animal with regard to a medically significant analyte, comprising: a sensor for determining measuring data that are correlated with a concentration of a medically significant analyte in a human or animal body fluid, and an analytical facility for analyzing a series of the measuring data that have been determined by the sensor and are correlated with the concentration of the medically significant analyte in the human or animal body fluid for time points that are distributed over a period of time of at least eight hours, the analytical facility being free from need to obtain a reference value of the medically significant analyte to calibrate the measuring data; whereby the analytical facility is adapted such that in operation, it selects from the period of time multiple time intervals, which each of the time intervals extend over at least one hour and the analytical facility determines a stability parameter that characterizes the analyte concentration dynamics of change in the time interval for each of the time intervals by analyzing measuring data that are from the time interval, and the analytical facility analyzes the stability parameter and assigns the stability parameter to one of a plurality of predetermined parameter ranges in order to determine disease-related particularities of metabolism.