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Continuous Glucose Monitoring

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116 points zdw | 5 comments | 30 Jun 25 02:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.618s | source
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leakycap ◴[30 Jun 25 04:02 UTC] No.44419235[source]▶
The author's mention of the Hawthorn Effect fascinated me; I hadn't considered that with devices your care team can monitor.

It will change a lot of lives when some device that doesn't draw blood can continuously monitor glucose, like a smartwatch.

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1. privatelypublic ◴[30 Jun 25 04:53 UTC] No.44419527[source]▶
Pretty sure optical glucose is already a thing- it's just not very accurate yet.
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2. nmehner ◴[30 Jun 25 05:38 UTC] No.44419798[source]▶
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/do...

Existing smart watches that claim to do this are basically garbage. Just use a random number generator instead.

Apple and Samsung are supposedly working on it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2025/01/26/samsung-... But it seems to be hard and from what I have seen the new Galaxy Watch 8 won't have this feature.

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3. leakycap ◴[30 Jun 25 06:41 UTC] No.44420189[source]▶
I have used my phone camera to determine blood pressure, but I have yet to see a common consumer device with optical glucose monitoring.

I'm suggesting that it will change the world when it is an integrated part of something many/most of us buy and would eventually upgrade to.

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4. leakycap ◴[30 Jun 25 06:42 UTC] No.44420192[source]▶
Great resources. It seems we'll see BP monitoring integrated in a mainstream base smartwatch before we'll get optical glucose monitoring.
5. ASalazarMX ◴[30 Jun 25 23:41 UTC] No.44429101[source]▶
> I have used my phone camera to determine blood pressure

You mean heart rate? they cleverly work by flooding your skin with the flash LED, and looking for small differences indicative of a heartbeat. Blood pressure is not something you can image with a consumer camera.