diff --git a/summary/types/glucose.go b/summary/types/glucose.go
index eaa4c6765..06e9fd1c0 100644
--- a/summary/types/glucose.go
+++ b/summary/types/glucose.go
@@ -153,15 +153,10 @@ func (r *Range) UpdateTotal(record Glucose) {
 
 // CombineVariance Implemented using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance#Parallel_algorithm
 func (r *Range) CombineVariance(new *Range) float64 {
-	// Exit early for No-Op case
-	if r.Variance == 0 && new.Variance == 0 {
-		return 0
-	}
-
-	// Return new if existing is 0
-	if r.Variance == 0 {
-		return new.Variance
-	}
+	// [BACK-4044] Only return early if either range has 0 records. Otherwise
+	// proceed with variance calculation even if one range has no variance in
+	// order to properly handle the case where multiple ranges only have one
+	// record each.
 
 	// if we have no values in either bucket, this will result in NaN, and cant be added anyway, return what we started with
 	if r.Records == 0 || new.Records == 0 {
diff --git a/summary/types/glucose_test.go b/summary/types/glucose_test.go
index f0dfbb4ec..e23bee43d 100644
--- a/summary/types/glucose_test.go
+++ b/summary/types/glucose_test.go
@@ -354,8 +354,10 @@ var _ = Describe("Glucose", func() {
 			// expect percent cleared, we don't handle percent on add
 			Expect(firstRange.Percent).To(BeZero())
 		})
+	})
 
-		It("range.Add without minutes", func() {
+	Describe("range.Add without minutes", func() {
+		It("multiple samples per range", func() {
 			firstRange := Range{
 				Glucose:  1,
 				Minutes:  0,
@@ -384,6 +386,46 @@ var _ = Describe("Glucose", func() {
 			// expect percent cleared, we don't handle percent on add
 			Expect(firstRange.Percent).To(BeZero())
 		})
+
+		It("one sample per range", func() {
+			// Test to cover [BACK-4044]
+			ranges := []Range{
+				{
+					Glucose: 10,
+					Minutes: 0,
+					Records: 1,
+				},
+				{
+					Glucose: 15,
+					Minutes: 0,
+					Records: 1,
+				},
+				{
+					Glucose: 8,
+					Minutes: 0,
+					Records: 1,
+				},
+				{
+					Glucose: 11,
+					Minutes: 0,
+					Records: 1,
+				},
+			}
+			rootRange := Range{}
+			vals := []float64{}
+			var runningTotal float64
+			for i, rng := range ranges {
+				rootRange.Add(&rng)
+				runningTotal += rng.Glucose
+				mean := runningTotal / float64(i+1)
+				vals = append(vals, rng.Glucose)
+				variance := CalculateVariance(vals, mean)
+				Expect(rootRange.Variance).To(Equal(variance))
+				if i > 0 {
+					Expect(rootRange.Variance).To(BeNumerically(">", math.SmallestNonzeroFloat64))
+				}
+			}
+		})
 	})
 
 	Context("Ranges", func() {
@@ -1056,6 +1098,79 @@ var _ = Describe("Glucose", func() {
 			Expect(period.Max).To(Equal(InTargetBloodGlucose))
 		})
 
+		It("Add four single record buckets to a period", func() {
+			datumTime := bucketTime.Add(5 * time.Minute)
+			period = GlucosePeriod{}
+
+			bucketOne := NewBucket[*GlucoseBucket](userId, bucketTime, SummaryTypeBGM)
+			err = bucketOne.Update(NewSelfMonitoredGlucoseWithValue(datumTime, 5.0))
+			Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+
+			bucketTwo := NewBucket[*GlucoseBucket](userId, bucketTime.Add(time.Hour), SummaryTypeBGM)
+			err = bucketTwo.Update(NewSelfMonitoredGlucoseWithValue(datumTime.Add(time.Hour), 5.0))
+			Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+
+			bucketThree := NewBucket[*GlucoseBucket](userId, bucketTime.Add(26*time.Hour), SummaryTypeBGM)
+			err = bucketThree.Update(NewSelfMonitoredGlucoseWithValue(datumTime.Add(26*time.Hour), 11.0))
+			Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+
+			bucketFour := NewBucket[*GlucoseBucket](userId, bucketTime.Add(27*time.Hour), SummaryTypeBGM)
+			err = bucketFour.Update(NewSelfMonitoredGlucoseWithValue(datumTime.Add(27*time.Hour), 11.0))
+			Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+
+			err = period.Update(bucketOne)
+			Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+			Expect(period.Target.Records).To(Equal(1))
+			Expect(period.HoursWithData).To(Equal(1))
+			Expect(period.DaysWithData).To(Equal(1))
+			Expect(period.Min).To(Equal(5.0))
+			Expect(period.Max).To(Equal(5.0))
+
+			err = period.Update(bucketTwo)
+			Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+			Expect(period.Target.Records).To(Equal(2))
+			Expect(period.HoursWithData).To(Equal(2))
+			Expect(period.DaysWithData).To(Equal(1))
+			Expect(period.Min).To(Equal(5.0))
+			Expect(period.Max).To(Equal(5.0))
+
+			err = period.Update(bucketThree)
+			Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+			Expect(period.Target.Records).To(Equal(2))
+			Expect(period.HoursWithData).To(Equal(3))
+			Expect(period.DaysWithData).To(Equal(2))
+			Expect(period.Min).To(Equal(5.0))
+			Expect(period.Max).To(Equal(11.0))
+
+			err = period.Update(bucketFour)
+			Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+			Expect(period.Target.Records).To(Equal(2))
+			Expect(period.HoursWithData).To(Equal(4))
+			Expect(period.DaysWithData).To(Equal(2))
+			Expect(period.Min).To(Equal(5.0))
+			Expect(period.Max).To(Equal(11.0))
+
+			periodDays := 7
+			period.Finalize(periodDays)
+
+			Expect(period.AnyLow.Percent).To(Equal(0.0))
+			Expect(period.AnyHigh.Percent).To(Equal(0.5))
+			Expect(period.Target.Percent).To(Equal(0.5))
+			Expect(period.Low.Percent).To(Equal(0.0))
+			Expect(period.High.Percent).To(Equal(0.5))
+			Expect(period.VeryLow.Percent).To(Equal(0.0))
+			Expect(period.ExtremeHigh.Percent).To(Equal(0.0))
+
+			avgGlucose := (5.0 + 5.0 + 11.0 + 11.0) / 4.0
+			Expect(period.AverageDailyRecords).To(Equal(4.0 / float64(periodDays)))
+			Expect(period.AverageGlucose).To(Equal(avgGlucose))
+
+			expectedStdev := ((5-avgGlucose)*(5-avgGlucose) + (5-avgGlucose)*(5-avgGlucose) + (11-avgGlucose)*(11-avgGlucose) + (11-avgGlucose)*(11-avgGlucose)) / 4.0 / 3.0
+			expectedCV := expectedStdev / avgGlucose
+			Expect(period.StandardDeviation).To(Equal(expectedStdev))
+			Expect(period.CoefficientOfVariation).To(Equal(expectedCV))
+		})
+
 		It("Finalize a 1d period", func() {
 			period = GlucosePeriod{}
 			buckets := CreateGlucoseBuckets(bucketTime, 24, 12, true)