Diabetes
One of today’s most urgent and complicated healthcare challenges is the global
diabetes epidemic. By personalising the daily grind of diabetes management, we are
working to make life easier for the hundreds of millions of people with diabetes, no
matter where they live
What's so difficult about living with diabetes is that it never takes a
Challenge
break. If they're lucky enough to live somewhere with access toFocus
diagnosis and care, people with diabetes get a few hours of
support from a nurse or doctor throughout the year, but are left to
handle their diabetes by themselves the rest of the time.
With so much to learn, track and think about - and needing to make
around 180 decisions every day’ -it can be difficult to integrate it
all into a daily routine and feel like there's life beyond diabetes.
As it stands, a person dies from diabetes and its complications
every five seconds. Unfortunately, diabetes is drastically on the rise
and it's expected that welll move from 537 million adults currently
living with diabetes to 783 million by 2045.” With costs already so
high, and access to treatment already so challenging, especially in
low- and middle-income countries, the strain on individuals and
societies is set to worsen.
Getting the right mix of solutions to the right person at the right
time can ease the burden on healthcare professionals, healthcare
systems and society. And what's especially important to us ~ it can
make life easier for people living with diabetes. With so much to
learn, dozens of decisions to make and hundreds of data points to
keep track of on any given day, personalising diabetes care can
provide insights and decision support to help people with diabetes
think less about their daily management.
Diabetes is as unique as the person managing it, and we need to
treat it that way. The future of diabetes management is its
personalisation.
References:
1. Erin Digitale, Scopeblog Stanford: New research keeps diabetics
safer during sleep [Internet, cited 2023 Oct 3]. Available from:https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2014/05/08/new-research-keeps-
diabetics-safer-during-sleep/
2. IDF Diabetes Atlas [Internet, cited 2023 Oct 3]. Available from:
https://diabetesatlas.org/
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