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Reconstruction is performed using piecewise cubic Hermite interpolation. PN+ was evaluated against peaks and nadirs only, uniform downsampling, piecewise aggregate approximation, and autoencoder-based compression. Performance was assessed across multiple compression ratios using 2 complementary datasets: 40,000 synthetic CGM profiles and real-world CGM data from a randomized crossover trial (558 days from 30 patients). Performance was evaluated using compression ratio, mean absolute error, and\n R<\/jats:italic>\n 2<\/jats:sup>\n between original and reconstructed CGM-derived clinical metrics.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n At a compression ratio of 13 (22 points per 24-hour profile), PN+ achieved substantially lower reconstruction error than comparator methods (mean absolute error=0.77 vs 2.75-3.45) and consistently higher\n R<\/jats:italic>\n 2<\/jats:sup>\n values across glycemic metrics. Improvements were most pronounced for excursion-sensitive measures such as mean amplitude of glycemic excursions, where PN+ reduced error by more than 4-fold compared with downsampling, piecewise aggregate approximation, and autoencoders. These performance advantages were preserved in heterogeneous real-world data. Encoding and decoding required less than 0.2 seconds per profile, supporting practical scalability.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n PN+ enables robust CGM data compression by explicitly preserving physiologically meaningful glucose dynamics. 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