Apple secretly worked on an app for users with prediabetes

Health has become a great asset to be exploited by large technology companies today. We just have to look at the drift that the Big Apple’s smart watch, the Apple Watch, has had, which in the last 5 years has added great and powerful health functions. All this thanks to the integration of oximetric sensors, to perform electrocardiograms or to determine blood oxygen saturation. One of the most important challenges for Apple is achieve blood glucose measurement without the need for an invasive method. But while they achieve it… it has been leaked that a few months ago They tested an app dedicated to information and glucose control for users with prediabetes.

Apple and prediabetes: motivation and glucose control with an app

Apple has been pursuing one goal for almost a decade: be able to monitor blood glucose without the need for punctures. The investment and technology behind this milestone will mark a before and after. It will allow diseases such as Diabetes Mellitus to be detected and diagnosed more prematurely. Without a doubt, the investment is behind it, but until a sensor capable of doing so with high reliability is achieved, Apple will not risk incorporating it into the Apple Watch. However, The development of this technology can lead to other uses.

One of them is a application to monitor, inform and warn users with prediabetes about how your habits can influence your blood glucose. According to BloombergApple tested a new app among the company’s workers in a highly secret way. It allowed users with prediabetes extra help to control food intake and make lifestyle changes.

Prediabetes is a condition in which a person’s blood sugar (glucose) levels are higher than normal but are not high enough to be diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus. This condition is a warning signal that the human body emits. In addition, it indicates that there is a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future. Therefore, detecting prediabetes can be one of the fundamental pillars to reduce the development of diabetes in the future.

This application tested in the Cupertino barracks this same year needed volunteers with prediabetes who had to actively monitor their blood glucose level through various devices available on the market and then record changes in glucose level depending on what they ate. Thanks to this, the application could make recommendations to prevent serious swings in glucose levels. Or give indications of how different foods are metabolized and how that would affect the evolution of your possible diabetes.

For now This application is not planned to be released. But it is another of the projects that Apple has adhered to the great project that means non-invasive monitoring of blood glucose. We’ll see how it evolves over the years… but it looks very good.