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Re: MySugr - Rethinking diabetes therapy

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Thanks for posting it franze. Feedback is welcome – concept, landingpage…… Still have to keep it a tad stealthy and obscure. Sorry.

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Re: MySugr - Rethinking diabetes therapy

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I, too, am at a high risk- I've seen members of my family slowly move from "abnormal fasting blood sugar" to "type 2 diabetic" over the span of a decade.

What I'm working on for myself is a set of scripts to take all the data I have about my diet and my blood glucose and making a chart of blood sugar fluctuation. Think fitday+ blood glucose readings + gnuplot. I'm using it to figure out what exactly is driving changes in BG levels.

I'm aiming for a chart like the one here: http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/16422495.php

I think that there's a great amount of insight to be had if OP can aggregate a few thousand, or 10's of thousands users diet and blood sugar readings, specially when the users are at the cusp of "abnormal blood sugar" and "full blow diabetes".

Re: MySugr - Rethinking diabetes therapy

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post #12

I, too, am at a high risk- I've seen members of my family slowly move from "abnormal fasting blood sugar" to "type 2 diabetic" over the span of a decade. What I'm working on for myself is a set of scripts to take all the data I have about my diet and my blood glucose and making a chart of blood sugar fluctuation. Think fitday+ blood glucose readings + gnuplot. I'm using it to figure out what exactly is driving change…

Sad to hear mate – sometimes I'm happy I'm t1 myself, not t2.

I worked a research project back at the uni, where we set up an analysis tool for diabetics. The amount of data was a sore lack for researchers. You can hook up w/ roche et al, they have the data but it's kinda locked up.

Lemme know how you come along with the visualization and concept! @fdebong or fd at mysugr dot com.

Re: MySugr - Rethinking diabetes therapy

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Looks promising, although some information about what you actually plan to do, would be good.

Also, if you want to make an impact with a page in English, I would strongly recommend that you run it by a native speaker.

In particular:

> This we will take care of — by fixing the way how the daily therapy works.

Definitely not. Perhaps "We will take care of this - by fixing the way daily therapy works."

Re: MySugr - Rethinking diabetes therapy

#19

Looks promising, although some information about what you actually plan to do , would be good. Also, if you want to make an impact with a page in English, I would strongly recommend that you run it by a native speaker. In particular: > This we will take care of — by fixing the way how the daily therapy works. Definitely not. Perhaps "We will take care of this - by fixing the way daily therapy works."

Oh dear, that's a n00b error.

Thanks for pointing it out to me.

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