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Innovative app under development for daily diabetes management

Can you imagine being able to control your blood sugar levels without having to take a single drop of blood from your body?

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For people with diabetes, this reality may soon be realized through an app.

So this is a new way to monitor sugar content in the palm of your hand. A study carried out and presented at the last meeting of the American College of Cardiology, in New Orleans, USA, brought positive results.

At first, the purpose of the app was to indirectly detect blood sugar. This way, the dreaded finger tingling can be avoided.

Originally developed to assess a patient's heart rate, the application is also being tested by researchers at the University of California, in the United States.

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But how does this application work? The app checks the pulse when the user places their index finger under the phone's camera flash.

This allows the heart rate to be obtained from the pulse wave.

During the study, measurements were compared across more than 54,000 people who reported having or not having diabetes.

In this way, inequalities in the shape of pulse waves can be detected between people with and without the disease.

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Therefore, the next step was to compare the different fluctuation patterns in blood glucose and HbA1c levels in another group of patients. Therefore, the main objective was to “train” the application to capture different glucose levels directly from the waves, enabling a relationship between the two metrics.