Modeling and Simulation in Python

17MODELING BLOOD SUGAR

In this chapter, we’ll start a new example, a model of how glucose and insulin interact to control blood sugar. We will implement a widely used model called the minimal model because it is intended to include only the elements essential to explain the observed behavior of the system. Here we’ll present the model and some background information we need to understand it. In the next chapter we’ll implement the model and compare the results to real data.

My presentation in this chapter follows R. N. Bergman’s paper ”Minimal Model: Perspective,” published in 2005 in Hormone Research in Pediatrics (see https://www.karger.com/article/Abstract/89312 ...