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116 points zdw | 2 comments | 30 Jun 25 02:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.591s | 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.

Pretty sure optical glucose is already a thing- it's just not very accurate yet.

1. nmehner ◴[30 Jun 25 05:38 UTC] No.44419798[source]▶

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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2. 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.

Continuous Glucose Monitoring