Wearable blood glucose sensor to measure blood glucose without needles
Diabetic patients need to do a good job of blood glucose monitoring, the current measurement method is mostly the use of blood glucose machine in the fingertips of the needle, many diabetic resistance; Taiwan Qing research team developed a "wearable blood glucose sensor", through the analysis of sweat composition can be inferred from the concentration of blood glucose, and has a self-powered function, as long as the walking 30 steps can be carried out once! The newest addition to the list is a new version of the "Gemini".
The Tsinghua research team developed a wearable self-powered sensor system
The research team led by Tsinghua University's Institute of Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor Zonghong Lin and National Taiwan University's Department of Chemistry Professor Huanzong Zhang, utilized a combination of friction nano-generator and miniaturized electrochemical analytical element technology to develop a wearable self-powered sensor system that can be applied to detect lactic acid in sweat. The new system is designed to detect lactic acid and glucose in sweat.
Analyzing sweat to measure blood glucose is non-invasive and timely
Associate Professor Lin Zonghong explains that using a simple circuit design, generating power to be stored in the capacitor first, and at present, in the case of walking 30 steps, the stored power can be enough to carry out a lactic acid or glucose detection; compared to the blood glucose measurement. In addition, it is possible to analyze the composition of sweat to deduce the concentration of blood glucose, which is non-invasive and more instantaneous than blood glucose measurement.
Diabetes is a disease that affects 25,000 people every year
Diabetes is one of the top 10 causes of death in the world, and nearly 10,000 people die from diabetes every year. According to the National Health Administration, there are more than 2 million diabetics in Taiwan, with about 25,000 new patients every year, and the complications caused by diabetes have resulted in a huge medical burden.
Wearable blood glucose devices on the market in 2 years
Associate Professor Lin Zonghong believes that the blood glucose detection method, combined with wearable devices, the public is more receptive to measuring blood glucose, and is expected to be on the market in 2 years at the earliest, which is expected to detect diabetes early, and thus reduce the risk of complications.
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