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. 2021 Oct 26;12(12):3153–3165. doi: 10.1007/s13300-021-01171-2

Table 5.

Hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia alarm detection rate

Alarm (sensitivity) Detection (specificity)
Number of alarms Success, N (%) Failure, N (%) Number of events Success, N (%) Failure, N (%)
Hypoglycemia alarm value (mmol/L)
 < 3.0 14 6 (42.86) 8 (57.14) 2 2 (100.00) 0 (0.00)
 < 3.3 36 13 (36.11) 23 (63.89) 9 7 (77.78) 2 (22.22)
 < 3.9 177 73 (41.24) 104 (58.76) 69 30 (43.48) 39 (56.52)
 < 4.4 419 242 (57.76) 177 (42.24) 228 100 (43.86) 128 (56.14)
 < 5.0 899 678 (75.42) 221 (24.58) 479 196 (40.92) 283 (59.08)
 < 5.5 1489 1260 (84.62) 229 (15.38) 810 295 (36.42) 515 (63.58)
Hyperglycemia alarm detection rate
 > 6.7 9357 9080 (97.04) 277 (2.96) 1790 739 (41.28) 1051 (58.72)
 > 7.8 7472 7071 (94.63) 401 (5.37) 1726 703 (40.73) 1023 (59.27)
 > 10.0 4083 3485 (85.35) 598 (14.65) 908 438 (48.24) 470 (51.76)
 > 11.1 2889 2255 (78.05) 634 (21.95) 615 321 (52.20) 294 (47.80)
 > 12.2 1801 1303 (72.35) 498 (27.65) 408 190 (46.57) 218 (53.43)
 > 13.3 1043 803 (76.99) 240 (23.01) 275 136 (49.45) 139 (50.55)
 > 16.7 243 116 (47.74) 127 (52.26) 47 27 (57.45) 20 (42.55)