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Item #2
Wave
Goodbye to Finger Sticks?
Painless
Ways for Diabetics to Measure Blood Sugar!
Instead
of dreaded, painful finger sticks done several times a day, people
with diabetes may someday be able to accurately monitor their blood
sugar levels as easily as taking their temperature.
They
may employ infrared light waves and computers instead of needles and
blood glucose meters by means of cutting-edge technology that uses the
same principals of ultrasound but with better resolution.
The
first trials of these experimental techniques suggest there may be
new, painless, and noninvasive ways to accurately keep tabs on blood
sugar levels, according to two studies in the December issue of
Diabetes Care, a medical journal published by the American Diabetes
Association.
In
one study, a prototype of a new device estimated blood sugar
"with clinically acceptable accuracy," says lead researcher
Carl Malchoff, MD, of the University of Connecticut Health Center.
The
handheld device performs like an ear thermometer by measuring the
body's infrared heat emissions. Dr.
Malchoff stated that, "You just place it against the eardrum for
about 10 or 15 seconds to measure blood glucose levels."
"In fact, it basically is an ear thermometer like you
would buy over-the-counter."
Besides
the handheld model, which is about the size of a cell phone, Janusz
Buchert, PhD, inventor of the device and president of Infratec Inc.,
said that he hopes to raise enough money to develop another prototype
that could provide continuous blood sugar monitoring. "This would
be worn like a hearing aid and could be connected to an implanted
insulin pump," he says.
In
the first independent clinical study of this noninvasive blood glucose
prototype based on thermal emission in the mid-infrared
spectral region has demonstrated glucose measurements with
clinically acceptable accuracy but without the necessity of
individual daily calibration. Diabetes Care
25:2268-2275, 2002
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FACT
Estimated
total medical expenditures in 1997 incurred by persons with type 1 or
type 2 diabetes were $10,071 per capita per year versus $2,669 for
persons without diabetes (American Diabetes Association, 1998).
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