WilliamM

ssfe11 said:

If this is legit then this is a HUGE game changer. 

No it's not. There are already continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) which provide the same information without any action on the part of the patient. Unfortunately those require the presence of a sensor on the patient's body and the sensors are expensive. The difficulty with this device is that a patient with low blood sugar may not be sufficiently aware of what is happening to do the test. The same might be true of high blood sugar but in my experience that just makes me very angry. I have had type 1 diabetes for 60 years and consider the currently available CGMs a huge advance on finger pricking which was also a huge advance on what was available before them (nothing). Having to stop and blow into a device to get a reading is a bit of a backward step. I'm not going to do that while driving a car through a busy city but the current CGMs would shout at me if my blood sugar got too low.