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Apple Has 'Secret' Team of Biomedical Engineers Developing Sensors for Non-Invasively Monitoring Blood Glucose

My Apple Watch (series 0) seems to work just fine and I have no intention of upgrading for speed, or more water resistance or cellular.

However, more sensors would definitely do it. I'm type two with A1C easily controlled with medication, so I don't even have to check on a daily basis any more.

But it would be great to be able to get the feedback on a continuous basis, because I'm simply not going to prick my finger to see just how that piece of cake hit me when my overall average is in an acceptable range.

But if I could see the spike from various meals, I'm sure that I would end up making some small, but healthy changes to my habits.
 
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It seems pretty clear when Jeff Williams was given full responsibility for Apple Watch that the focus of the device would be all around health. Every Apple Watch ad these days focuses on exercise and the activity rings.
 
TxExCxH said:
Type 1 diabetic. If this is true and depending on how accurate, this would get me interested in an Apple Watch.
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Dexcom has a very good app for the iPhone and Apple Watch. I have been using it for several months now and I love it. You can add glucose reading complications on the watch faces. Being a type 1 myself, current glucose readings are just as important as the current time.
 
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I wish this type of information didn't get leaked. Samsung and Microsoft are now going to rush crappy imitations to market and say they did it first.
 
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If you are gonna measure blood, there are other things to measure...like oxygen, sodium, etc.
 
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ActionableMango said:
You need blood for existing technology that has been around for years or even decades. This must be referring to something new.

In fact in Europe there is a no-blood tester but it is still somewhat invasive. It is not in the US yet because our FDA takes a lot longer. I've considered importing it.
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Sugarbeat?
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MacLawyer said:
I wish this type of information didn't get leaked. Samsung and Microsoft are now going to rush crappy imitations to market and say they did it first.
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Nothing that has to go through the FDA is ever rushed to market. They move at a snails pace.
 
I would be interested in what this does to the battery life, and/or size of the Apple Watch. I understand how this could be useful to a lot of people. But for those of us who aren't interested in the sensor, it would be nice to not have another sensor in our watch sucking precious battery life. I'd be more interested in longer battery life than extra sensors.
 
CaryMacGuy said:
Dexcom has a very good app for the iPhone and Apple Watch. I have been using it for several months now and I love it. You can add glucose reading complications on the watch faces. Being a type 1 myself, current glucose readings are just as important as the current time.
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I use a Dex as well and have the complication on my watch too. But would be interesting to see a product that was skin surface only, rather than the sensor fiber in our flesh.
 
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I wouldn't mind putting something adjacent to the watch through it, but not the watch, because it would hold us back from innovating too much
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Yeah, Apple Watch innovated so much since its release.
But finally there're some good news regarding sensors...
 
thermal said:
Not necessarily. You can check blood oxygen levels non-invasively; blood glucose levels are the next step.
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Sigh...

I'm an Anaesthesiologist/Anaesthetist. I cannot see any way that blood glucose can be measured directly and accurately in a non-invasive way. Not physically possible and you sure as hell aren't going to detect glucose with 'light' in vivo.

Pulse oximeters measure the differential absorption of two wavelengths of light through the pulsatile component of blood to determine the haemoglobin saturation (which doesn't tell you the full story about actual oxygen carrying capacity - ie. you might be anaemic). To properly check 'blood oxygen levels' you absolutely, positively need a blood sample.

The sensor on the Apple Watch simply measures the pulse by the varying absorption of light with each pulse (green or infra-read) and it's far from perfect. Are we going to suggest that we can base clinical decisions (or patient's can manage their insulin regime) with a non-medical-grade device? I don't think so...

Even if it were possible it's one thing to collect the data, and another thing entirely working out what to do with it all. For diabetics it's useful. For the rest of the population it's a complete waste of time. You don't need to constantly measure your blood glucose levels during the day.

All this just reeks of techno-narcissism with a good dollop of the Dunning-Kruger Effect helping drive it.
 
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CaryMacGuy said:
Dexcom has a very good app for the iPhone and Apple Watch. I have been using it for several months now and I love it. You can add glucose reading complications on the watch faces. Being a type 1 myself, current glucose readings are just as important as the current time.
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Do you use the Dexcom insulin pump with it? I used to have the Medtronic insulin pump but it was more of a pain to use. It wasn't very accurate so I also had to carry around an extra glucose tester. Eventually I just went back to syringe and tester.
 
I have a feeling a lot of Apple fans are going to half-know a whole lot about diabetes technology all of a sudden.
 
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This seems like one those "secrets labs" that Intel used back in the day somewhere to work on reverse engineering the BIOS.

perfect

scrapesleon said:
so that means it will be a software update instead of hardware?
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If its 'software' why would it be hardware based? Seems a new phone will be required..
 
If this comes to fruition, then AAPL will make an absolute killing. Money will be oozing out of them everywhere.
 
I'd rather they work on a Touch ID sensor and multitouch screen that will work with wet fingers & underwater.
 
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