As of now, the Apple Watch is not able to determine the wearer’s blood sugar – even though Apple has been working on the feature internally for years. Now the company is said to be testing, at least internally, an app that, even without such sensors, could help people prevent prediabetes from turning into true Type 2 diabetes. However, it is unclear whether it will ever be made public.
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The trial is said to have run this year and involved select people who were already diagnosed with prediabetes through blood tests. Apart from the app, they also used a regular blood glucose meter available in the market to log the values along with the food consumed in the app. The background idea was to show people how certain foods affect blood sugar financial news agency bloombergWho spoke to Apple sources.
For example, if a user ate pasta and then noticed a spike in blood sugar, they could be informed that it would be better to switch to a higher-protein diet. The purpose of the experiments was, among other things, to help explore ways in which blood glucose data could be incorporated into a future Apple Health product. At the moment, unlike competing products, the Central Health app has no “food logging” option.
a long term project
Even if Apple doesn’t manage to give the Apple Watch a precise sensor, the company could at least integrate a third-party offering – there have long been sensors that can be permanently attached to the body.
However, the group is now said to have made progress in its efforts to implement non-invasive glucose monitoring. Apple’s first projects were here 15 years ago. However, commercialization may still take several years. According to Bloomberg, the existing app project was only indirectly connected to the blood sugar monitoring project. It can be speculated that Apple initially only displays glucose deviations and warns of prediabetes status, but does not give exact measurement values.
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