Uso de glicosímetro em animais – uma revisão da literatura

Abstract

Glucose is a molecule related to many physiological and morphological aspects of animals, such as age, nutritional status, energy and pathologies. Measuring glycemic levels is, thus, a way to assess information about health status. Glucose meters are tools created to make this task easier, and many of them were developed specifically to human blood conditions. If they are meant to be used in other species, validation tests are mandatory. We conducted a bibliographic research on Web of Science database, aiming to gather information on the use of these devices in animals other than humans. Our search recovered 623 papers on the use of glucose meters, of wich 110 were on non-human species. In only 33 papers there was some mention on validation tests. Rats were the most frequently used species (48 papers). The analyzed studies made use of 67 different types of glucose meters, but Accu-Chek was the most frequent one. Most of the papers came from United States, India and Nigeria, and the first country was the one with the largest number their validation tests.