Investigating Speed Deviation Patterns During Glucose Episodes: A Quantile Regression Approach
It addresses driving safety risks for people with diabetes, but is incremental in applying quantile regression to this specific problem.
This paper investigated how acute glucose episodes (hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic) affect driving speed patterns in people with diabetes compared to euglycemic drivers and controls without diabetes, using quantile regression to analyze speed deviation patterns rather than average speed.
Given the growing prevalence of diabetes, there has been significant interest in determining how diabetes affects instrumental daily functions, like driving. Complication of glucose control in diabetes includes hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic episodes, which may impair cognitive and psychomotor functions needed for safe driving. The goal of this paper was to determine patterns of diabetes speed behavior during acute glucose to drivers with diabetes who were euglycemic or control drivers without diabetes in a naturalistic driving environment. By employing distribution-based analytic methods which capture distribution patterns, our study advances prior literature that has focused on conventional approach of average speed to explore speed deviation patterns.