Glycemic penalty index for adequately assessing and comparing different blood glucose control algorithms

Table 3 Blood glucose (BG) control assesment; evaluation of BG control by computing the average morning BG, the average BG, the hyperglycemic index (HGI), and the glycemic penalty index (GPI) for patient group 1

Patient no.	Average morning BG (mg/dl)	Average BG (mg/dl)	HGI (mg/dl)	GPI (C_Hypo(%) – C_Hyper(%))
1	161	143	39	49 (16.2 – 83.8)
2	129	123	17	27 (4.0 – 96.0)
3	124	141	28	42 (9.6 – 90.4)
4	165	131	41	45 (23.0 – 77.0)
5	97	101	6	20 (34.7 – 65.3)
6	77	105	9	22 (36.6 – 63.4)
7	104	115	9	18 (4.2 – 95.8)
8	129	127	27	35 (18.4 – 81.6)
9	93	132	26	37 (29.5 – 70.5)
10	109	106	8	16 (23.5 – 76.5)
11	103	100	4	27 (49.8 – 50.2)
12	97	117	15	29 (21.4 – 78.6)
13	100	101	4	10 (31.2 – 68.8)
14	103	113	9	18 (11.5 – 88.5)
15	98	98	4	13 (47.5 – 52.5)
16	111	114	18	28 (27.5 – 72.5)
17	101	101	6	15 (40.0 – 60.0)
18	104	105	4	7 (1.7 – 98.3)
19	97	99	1	5 (39.0 – 61.0)
20	102	99	3	9 (25.7 – 74.3)
21	102	107	4	12 (16.2 – 83.8)
22	126	115	10	17 (11.9 – 88.1)
23	60	101	21	56 (59.7 – 40.3)
24	102	135	19	23 (0 – 100)
25	101	107	7	9 (10.3 – 89.7)
26	100	106	8	19 (29.7 – 70.3)
27	112	107	6	14 (27.8 – 72.2)
28	104	111	10	15 (1.3 – 98.7)
29	105	110	7	10 (0 – 100)
30	120	177	62	61 (5.2 – 94.8)
31	110	96	6	23 (57.1 – 42.9)
32	99	102	5	11 (18.3 – 81.7)
33	120	119	14	21 (12.1 – 87.9)
34	96	96	2	9 (51.2 – 48.8)
35	94	97	3	12 (48.0 – 52.0)
36	157	194	74	55 (19.5 – 80.5)
37	94	97	4	13 (49.1 – 50.9)
38	106	102	2	4 (10.6 – 89.4)
39	104	104	7	13 (24.2 – 75.8)
40	112	115	8	15 (6.9 – 93.1)
41	119	109	9	18 (18.0 – 82.0)
Mean (SD)	108 (20)	114 (21)	14 (16)	22 (14)
Median (25% to 75% IQR)	104 (98 to 112)	107 (101 to 116)	8 (4 to 17])	18 (12 to 27)
				C_Hypo: 21.4 (10.3 to 34.7)
				C_Hyper: 78.6 (63.4 to 89.4)

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