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Apple has been working on this for more than 10 years. They bought a company that had promising technology, but it has not been commercialized yet. They have sunk millions of dollars into R&D.
The process works using a very specific wavelength of light. Glucose in the blood will absorb some of this light and the difference allows them to calculate blood glucose level without a finger prick. The demo devices are large, but the do work and are accurate. The problem is miniaturization.
Once apple has blood glucose monitoring that is accurate they will have THE killer medical device in the watch. It already can go an ekg, pulse/oximeter, sleep monitor, exercise tracking. The addition of glucose monitoring would be a godsend for many people who struggle with what to eat for blood sugar control. All you would have to do is wear your watch and eat. If you eat the wrong things the watch will warn you within 30 minutes to a couple hours of a blood sugar spike. It would be pretty easy to determine what you ate and either avoid that or reduce the amount.
It is inconvenient for type 2 people to carry around a finger stick, strips and a meter and do that three times a day. Wearing a watch would be a lot easier and would carry no social stigma.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-22/apple-watch-blood...
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Can a Smartwatch Monitor Blood Sugar?
