blood glucose level area under curve (AUC) absolute change in blood glucose level area under curve 2014-01-06T10:10:55Z CMO:0002034 EFO:0020881 JSmith The difference in blood glucose level area under curve (blood glucose AUC) between two points in time or two conditions expressed as the result of the subtraction in and of itself without comparison by ratio with another quantity. Blood glucose AUC is a calculated value in which a series of measurements of the amount of glucose in a specified volume of blood is plotted against time for a single individual and the extent of the two dimensional region bounded by the curve and the axes of the graph is determined. The term "absolute change" refers to the subtraction of one value from another, as opposed to a dissimilarity of two values expressed as a ratio or as a percentage. In this context it is not intended to necessarily imply the difference expressed as an absolute value |n|, that is, the numeric value of the difference without regard to its sign. absolute change in glucose AUC clinical_measurement_ontology glucose change measurement