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Apple Tests Prediabetes App in Push for Blood-Sugar Tracking: Report
Apple recently tested a prediabetes management app with select employees, according to reporting by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The app aims to help users track food intake and lifestyle changes while showing how different foods impact blood sugar levels, encouraging healthier habits.
Participants in the test earlier this year had to verify their prediabetes status through blood tests and used third-party glucose monitors to track changes in their blood sugar. While Apple has no immediate plans to release the app, it may integrate the tech into future health products, including a noninvasive glucose tracker that Apple has been developing for over 10 years.
The prediabetes app is part of Apple’s overall dive into glucose monitoring, though it is separate from the company’s ongoing effort to create a no-prick glucose monitor.
The project was highly confidential, with employees needing special approvals, medical agreements, and NDAs to participate. Apple used similar testing with employees for developing its Apple Watch sleep apnea detection and hearing aid features for AirPods Pro as well (not available in Canada of course).
Apple’s secret glucose tracker project is known internally as E5. It started 15 years ago under a subsidiary called Avolonte Health LLC. The company needs to make the sensor small enough to fit into an Apple Watch and is working on a prototype that’s about the size of an iPhone, but still needs to overcome overheating and miniturization issues.
The tech uses lasers to measure glucose levels by analyzing light reflected through the skin. Early versions are expected to focus on detecting prediabetes and providing notifications, instead of giving exact blood-sugar readings.
If Apple can solve blood-sugar readings without a prick, and to have the tech integrated into an Apple Watch? That would be a game-changer for the millions of diabetics out there.
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As a type 1 diabetic it definitely can be a game changer to prevent diabetes or in my case to help keep keep my blood sugars leveled
Oh please. Like a cure for cancer? That's delusional optimism!
Any type 1 diabetic already knows how to manage (keep level) their glucose through diet, exercise, insulin, and patches. Moreover, "early versions are expected to focus on detecting prediabetes and providing notifications, instead of giving exact blood-sugar readings." There isn't even a prototype yet. Just like the sleep apnea feature, it will likely end up being a gimmick to sell more watches.
The pharma industry doesn't want to eradicate diabetes especially now with diabetic weight loss injections costing so much money and being so popular.
I'm surprised no one has come here to claim that type 2 diabetes is "reversible."
Type 2 is reversible. Type 1 is not. Any diabetic will tell you how valuable it is to even have a ballpark of what your blood sugar is. If the apple watch could even say hey uhh maybe check your blood sugar because signs say it's high… valuable. If you didn't know you were diabetic? Even more so.
Using your logic… wouldn't big pharma want you to know that you're diabetic so that they could sell more?
Edit: I just realized that you misunderstood the original poster. "As a type 1 diabetic it definitely can be a game changer, [for some to prevent type 2 diabetes], or in my case to help keep my blood sugars leveled.
Oh please. Like a cure for cancer? That's delusional optimism!
Any type 1 diabetic already knows how to manage (keep level) their glucose through diet, exercise, insulin, and patches. Moreover, "early versions are expected to focus on detecting prediabetes and providing notifications, instead of giving exact blood-sugar readings." There isn't even a prototype yet. Just like the sleep apnea feature, it will likely end up being a gimmick to sell more watches.
The pharma industry doesn't want to eradicate diabetes especially now with diabetic weight loss injections costing so much money and being so popular.
I'm surprised no one has come here to claim that type 2 diabetes is "reversible."
What negative points can there be for this comment? Why they two thumb down?
Oh John, you and your hyperbole—game changer.
The tech will be proven unreliable. Apple is starting to be like Google throwing a bunch of ideas against the wall and grabbing what sticks.
Unlike google Apple is running this TEST in-house for research and not using the public as test subjects.
Umm, no. To be like Google, they’d have to release multiple overlapping and redundant products, all as long term betas, and then kill them off as people start using them.
Testing new potential features in house…well, that’s called development.
It’s like you’re trying to embarrass yourself by demonstrating ignorance. You’re doing well.