Hypoglycemia Detection Using Hand Tremors: Home Study of Patients With Type 1 Diabetes

Author:

Jahromi RezaORCID,Zahed KarimORCID,Sasangohar FarzanORCID,Erraguntla MadhavORCID,Mehta RanjanaORCID,Qaraqe KhalidORCID

Abstract

Background Diabetes affects millions of people worldwide and is steadily increasing. A serious condition associated with diabetes is low glucose levels (hypoglycemia). Monitoring blood glucose is usually performed by invasive methods or intrusive devices, and these devices are currently not available to all patients with diabetes. Hand tremor is a significant symptom of hypoglycemia, as nerves and muscles are powered by blood sugar. However, to our knowledge, no validated tools or algorithms exist to monitor and detect hypoglycemic events via hand tremors. Objective In this paper, we propose a noninvasive method to detect hypoglycemic events based on hand tremors using accelerometer data. Methods We analyzed triaxial accelerometer data from a smart watch recorded from 33 patients with type 1 diabetes for 1 month. Time and frequency domain features were extracted from acceleration signals to explore different machine learning models to classify and differentiate between hypoglycemic and nonhypoglycemic states. Results The mean duration of the hypoglycemic state was 27.31 (SD 5.15) minutes per day for each patient. On average, patients had 1.06 (SD 0.77) hypoglycemic events per day. The ensemble learning model based on random forest, support vector machines, and k-nearest neighbors had the best performance, with a precision of 81.5% and a recall of 78.6%. The results were validated using continuous glucose monitor readings as ground truth. Conclusions Our results indicate that the proposed approach can be a potential tool to detect hypoglycemia and can serve as a proactive, nonintrusive alert mechanism for hypoglycemic events.

Publisher

JMIR Publications Inc.

Subject

Health Information Management,Health Informatics,Biomedical Engineering,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

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