title: Correlation between sweat glucose and blood glucose in subjects with diabetes.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Sweat contains glucose that can accurately reflect blood glucose. However, skin surface glucose can confound these measurements.
  
  
  METHODS
  A perfusion method was used to rapidly harvest sweat from forearm sites on human subjects. The sweat samples were analyzed for glucose by high-performance liquid chromatography methods and compared with the results obtained with a blood glucose meter.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results of 23 different studies of seven individual subjects with diabetes show a strong correlation between sweat glucose and blood glucose.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Sweat glucose, when properly harvested to prevent contamination from other sources on the skin's surface, can accurately reflect blood glucose levels.
authors.affiliation: FreeLance, Inc., San Francisco, California 94114, USA.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moyer
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Irina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Finkelshtein
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Russell
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Potts
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000378:metabolism*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D005542:Forearm; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013542:Sweat / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D005947:Glucose