FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
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Re: FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
#2bet marathoners and ultra runners will start using this to improve performance
(don't have a problem with that, but it's predictable)
too bad it's not "wearable" like a watch but that might be coming eventually too since Garmin has a patent on it
* https://the5krunner.com/2026/02/06/garmin-non-invasive-blood...
(btw Fenix 9 launched today but it's same hardware as Fenix 8 and no glucose feature)
Re: FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
#3Automated glucose control will be the next frontier in so many areas of healthcare. I'm still skeptical that anyone will be able to noninvasively and accurately sense blood sugar, but I'm glad people (especially kids with T1) will have one more tool to help them. I hope they can figure out the reimbursement side to get it into the most hands possible!
Re: FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
#4I thought this was going to be a non-invasive sugar-level device, but it looks like in fact the innovation here is that a popular CGM line can now do ketones?
Re: FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
#5I thought this was going to be a non-invasive sugar-level device, but it looks like in fact the innovation here is that a popular CGM line can now do ketones?
non-invasive continuous blood sugar measurement is mired in patents and technical challenges. Turns out it's really difficult to disambiguate the absorption lines of glucose from other similarly shaped molecules when you're also dealing with untangling skin conductivity, transmissivity, sweat, inflammation etc.
Re: FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
#6I thought this was going to be a non-invasive sugar-level device, but it looks like in fact the innovation here is that a popular CGM line can now do ketones?
Seems to be the case, yeah
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#7Looked after my son who has T1D for now 5 years, checked keytones maybe 20 times.
Compared to blood glucose which we check look at every 5 minutes.
Maybe this is more for Type 2 or other diabetes, or for people prone to DKA. Or it is for people with a working pancreas who think looking at their blood sugars (and now keytones) tells them something like soothsayers reading tea leaves
Re: FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
#8What about all the other wearable sensors like
Re: FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
#9Looked after my son who has T1D for now 5 years, checked keytones maybe 20 times. Compared to blood glucose which we check look at every 5 minutes. Maybe this is more for Type 2 or other diabetes, or for people prone to DKA. Or it is for people with a working pancreas who think looking at their blood sugars (and now keytones) tells them something like soothsayers reading tea leaves
Considering that DKA accounts for 160k hospital admissions a year, your lived experience translates poorly to such a flippant dismissal.
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/about/diabetic-ketoacidosis.htm...
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