If there’s one feature I want from wearables tracking my health parameters, it’s a built-in sensor that will track blood sugar levels. Specifically, I’d want that from my Apple Watch, which I already wear religiously to track all my health data, including sleep and workouts. Apple is one company that’s currently studying blood sugar monitoring tech, but none of them is close to releasing such a groundbreaking sensor.
Diabetes treatment requires frequent blood glucose checks, and you usually need to draw blood to perform the reading. Having a wearable sensor do all that by beaming light through the skin would be revolutionary. Devices like the Apple Watch might help not just manage diabetes better but actually catch the early phases of the illness and possibly prevent it. If you know your blood sugar is increasingly showing higher values than normal, you’d be more likely to visit a doctor and take steps to correct your diet and exercise habits.
While we wait for companies like Apple and Samsung to come out with non-invasive blood sugar sensors for wearable devices, others are getting ready to offer the next best thing: Using current tech to make continuous glucose readings more accessible.
Oura, makers of the popular Oura Rings, has partnered with Dexcom, which manufactures over-the-counter continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices you wear on your skin. In the future, the Oura Ring app will include blood sugar information from Dexcom products like the Stelo. The app will be able to offer more comprehensive health insights to Oura Ring users.
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Oura Ring app will soon add blood sugar readings, but it’s not as groundbreaking as it sounds originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 25 Nov 2024 at 10:31:26 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.