La Health has become a great asset that the big tech companies are currently exploiting. We only have to look at the trend that the Big Apple's smartwatch, the Apple Watch, has had, which in the last 5 years has added great and powerful health functions. All of this thanks to the integration of oximetric sensors, to perform electrocardiograms or to determine blood oxygen saturation. One of the most important challenges for Apple is to measure blood glucose without the need for an invasive method. But while they get it... it has been leaked that a few months ago They tested an app dedicated to information and glucose control for users with prediabetes.
Apple and prediabetes: motivation and glucose control with an app
Apple has been pursuing one goal for almost a decade: achieve blood glucose monitoring without the need for needle sticks. The investment and technology behind this milestone will mark a before and after. It will allow diseases such as Diabetes Mellitus to be detected and diagnosed earlier. Without a doubt, the investment is behind it, but until a sensor capable of doing so with high reliability is achieved, Apple will not risk incorporating it into the Apple Watch. However, The development of this technology may lead to other uses.
One of them is a Application to monitor, inform and alert users with prediabetes about how your habits can influence your blood glucose. According to Bloomberg, Apple secretly tested a new app among company employees. It allowed users with prediabetes extra help to monitor food intake and make lifestyle changes.
Prediabetes is a condition in which a person's blood sugar (glucose) levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus. This condition is a warning signal emitted by the human body. It also indicates that there is a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future. Therefore, detecting prediabetes can be one of the fundamental pillars to reduce the development of diabetes in the future.
This application tested in Cupertino headquarters this year needed volunteers with prediabetes who had to actively monitor their blood glucose level through various devices available on the market and then record changes in glucose levels based on what they ate. Thanks to this, the application could make recommendations to prevent serious fluctuations in glucose levels, or give indications of how different foods are metabolized and how this would affect the evolution of possible diabetes.
Por el momento This application is not planned to be released. But it is another of the projects that Apple has attached to the great project that is the non-invasive monitoring of blood glucose. We will see how it evolves over the years… but it looks very good.