With Ai, Your Apple Watch Could Flag Signs Of Diabetes
With AI, Your Apple Watch Could Flag Signs of Diabetes With AI, Your Apple Watch Could Flag Signs of Diabetes With AI, Your Apple Watch Could Flag Signs of Diabetes Before modern chemistry brought doctors blood and urine tests for diagnosing diabetes, they had to rely on their taste buds. Sweet-tasting pee has long been the diseases telltale biomarker; mellitus literally means honey. Too much sugar in your bodily fluids means your metabolism has gone haywireeither your cells arent making insulin or theyre not responding to it. But a little over a decade ago, a group of researchers discovered a less obvious link . One of the complications of diabetes is nerve damage, and in the cardiovascular system that damage can cause irregular heart rates. Which you can measure, either with electricity or light. So one day soon, doctors might diagnose diabetes with their patients wrist bling instead of blood pricks or pee strips. Oh, what difference a few centuries make. In 2005, heart rate sensors were something only elite athletes and very sick people used. Today, one in five Americans own one. Which is why theres now a deep learning company trying to make something out of the connection between heart rate and diabetes. On Wednesday, at the annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in New Orleans, digital health-tracking startup Cardiogram presented research suggesting the Apple Watchs heart rate sensor and step counter can make a good guess at whether or not a person has diabeteswhen paired with the right machine-learning algorithms, of course. Apple has been eyeing a career change from personal trainer to personal physician for its signature wearable for a while now. In November the company teamed up with health insurer Aetna to give away more than 500,000 Apple Watches Continue reading >>
The Apple Watch Can Detect Diabetes With An 85% Accuracy, Cardiogram Study Says
According to Cardiogram founder Brandon Ballingers latest clinical study, the Apple Watch can detect diabetes in those previously diagnosed with the disease with an 85 percent accuracy. The study is part of the larger DeepHeart study with Cardiogram and UCSF. This particular study used data from 14,000 Apple Watch users and was able to detect that 462 of them had diabetes by using the Watchs heart rate sensor, the same type of sensor other fitness bands using Android Wear also integrate into their systems. In 2015, the Framingham Heart Study showed that resting heart rate and heart rate variability significantly predicted incident diabetes and hypertension. This led to the impetus to use the Watchs heart rate sensor to see if it could accurately detect a diabetic patient. Previously, Ballinger and his colleagues were able to use Apples Watch to detect an abnormal heart rhythm with up to a 97 percent accuracy, sleep apnea with a 90 percent accuracy and hypertension with an 82 percent accuracy when paired with Cardiograms AI-based algorithm. Most of these discoveries have been published in clinical journals or abstracts and Ballinger intends to publish the latest findings shortly after presenting at the AAAI 2018 conference this week. Diabetes is a huge and growing problem in the U.S. More than 100 million U.S. adults are now living with pre-diabetes or diabetes and more than 1 in 4 of them go undiagnosed, according to the CDC. Part of the problem is the pain that goes into checking blood glucose levels. A patient must prick themselves after every meal and correctly take the right amount of insulin to keep themselves in balance. Early detection could also help in cutting down on diabetes-related diseases before they get out of hand. While there have been other attempts t Continue reading >>
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Apple Has A Secret Team Working On The Holy Grail For Treating Diabetes
Apple has hired a small team of biomedical engineers to work at a nondescript office in Palo Alto, California, miles from corporate headquarters. They are part of a super secret initiative, initially envisioned by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, to develop sensors that can noninvasively and continuously monitor blood sugar levels to better treat diabetes, according to three people familiar with the matter. Such a breakthrough would be a "holy grail" for life sciences. Many life sciences companies have tried and failed, as it's highly challenging to track glucose levels accurately without piercing the skin. The initiative is far enough along that Apple has been conducting feasibility trials at clinical sites across the Bay Area and has hired consultants to help it figure out the regulatory pathways, the people said. The efforts have been going on for at least five years, the people said. Jobs envisioned wearable devices, like smartwatches, being used to monitor important vitals, such as oxygen levels, heart rate and blood glucose. In 2010, Apple quietly acquired a company called Cor, after then-CEO Bob Messerschmidt reportedly sent Jobs a cold email on the topic of sensor technologies for health and wellness. Messerschmidt later joined the Apple Watch team. The glucose team is said to report to Johny Srouji, Apple's senior vice president of hardware technologies. According to one of the sources, it was previously led by Michael D. Hillman, who left Apple in late 2015 and later joined Facebook's Oculus as head of hardware. Hillman's LinkedIn page lists him as having had a "confidential role" in hardware technologies at Apple. One person said about 30 people were working in this group as of a year ago. But speculation has been flying around since the company snapped Continue reading >>
Review: Latest Apple Watch Shows Potential As Very Sweet Medical Device
Review: Latest Apple Watch shows potential as very sweet medical device The cellular function of the Apple Watch Series 3 represents an important advance for anyone managing a chronic condition. The cellular function of the Apple Watch Series 3 represents an important advance for anyone managing a chronic condition. (Associated Press) I went into a test drive of the Apple Watch Series 3 thinking it could be a real game changer for diabetes management. Now Im thinking it should be considered by anyone with a chronic illness. First, the most important Series 3 feature for people with diabetes isnt available yet, but it will be soon, maybe within the next few months, after the Food and Drug Administration gives its blessing. I have Type 1 diabetes the autoimmune kind, not the more common Type 2 typically associated with obesity. Like many Type 1s, I wear a sensor on my abdomen called a continuous glucose monitor to measure my blood sugar level. This technology has been around for about a decade, but its only within the last few years that the accuracy of continuous glucose monitors has gotten good enough to count on. Heres how it works: My sensor, made by San Diegos Dexcom, sends my glucose numbers to my iPhone , which in turn transmits them to my Pebble smartwatch for easy viewing. Very convenient. Soon, however, the Series 3 will cut the iPhone out of the equation, allowing my sensor to interact directly with the watch via Bluetooth. That means if I leave my phone at home, or if Im at the gym, Ill still have ready access to my numbers. Los Angeles Times cosumer columnist David Lazarus reviews the Apple Watch Series 3. Los Angeles Times cosumer columnist David Lazarus reviews the Apple Watch Series 3. That may not sound like much to someone with a working pancreas. But f Continue reading >>
Apple Watch Can Tell Whether Youve Got Diabetes With 85% Accuracy
Apple Watch can tell whether youve got diabetes with 85% accuracy The medical benefits of Apple's 329 smartwatch have again been brought to light, this time as a tool for detecting early signs of diabetes THE Apple Watch can detect early signs of diabetes with 85 per cent accuracy using its built-in heart rate sensor, according to a clinical study. The research tapped into data from 14,000 Apple Watch users and was able to detect that 462 of them had diabetes, with a little help from an artificial intelligence algorithm. The heart rate sensor in an Apple Watch and other smartwatches can be used to detect early signs of diabetes According to Diabetes UK, almost 3.6 million Brits suffer from diabetes, making it the "fastest growing health threat" facing the country. The latest study - a collaboration betweenUniversity of California San Francisco (USCF) and Apple Watch app-maker Cardiogram - is the latest to push the health benefits of the popular smartwatch, which shifted 18 million units in the last three months of 2017 alone. 3.6 million people are suffering from diabetes in the UK It's estimated that the NHS spends about 10 billion on diabetes every year (10 percent of its budget) Approximately 90 percent of diabetes cases are Type 2, which is largely preventable or manageable by lifestyle changes 1 in 4 people with diabetes are undiagnosed, that's nearly 1 million people Based on current trends, it's estimated that 4.9 million Brits will have diabetes by the year 2035. Researchers from USCF fed the mound of heart rate data to Cardiogram's DeepHeart algorithm to help train it (AI systems typically require vast amounts of information to help them to get smarter). Because your heart is connected with your pancreas, via the body's automatic nervous system, people who dev Continue reading >>
Apple Watch Can Detect Diabetes With 85% Accuracy, Studysays
Apple Watch Can Detect Diabetes With 85% Accuracy, StudySays Filed Under: Apple , Apple Watch , Chris Melore , diabetes , Local TV , Talkers (CBS Local) Technology has transformed the wrist watch from a clock, to a phone, and now into a non-invasive monitor for diabetes. According to a study released by Apple, the Apple Watch can accurately tell whether the wearer does or does not have diabetes 85 percent of the time. An ongoing study by app developer Cardiogram and the University of California is tracking over 14,000 Apple Watch and Android Wear users, gathering data on many patients who have diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, atrial fibrillation, and high cholesterol. The watches were able to accurately detect the warnings signs for diabetes in 462 users. Cardiograms study used the Apple Watchs heart rate sensor, the same sensor other fitness bands also have, to judge if a person was at risk for the chronic blood sugar disorder. According to the Farmingham Heart Study of 2015, a persons resting heart rate and heart rate variability could successfully predict the development of diabetes and hypertension. Cardiogram Say Apple Watch Can Detect Early Diabetes Symptoms @bryanmwolfe pic.twitter.com/fp1n2VdQuO Continue reading >>
Fitbit And Apple Watch Can Help Predict Diabetes, Says Report
Fitbit and Apple Watch can help predict diabetes, says report Smart watches just got smarter, according to a new study of the use of wearables to predict the risk of medical conditions, including diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. An AI neural network, known as DeepHeart, is the brains behind the breakthrough. Research from digital heart-rate tracking company Cardiogram has revealed the latent potential in consumer heart rate trackers, such as those found in Fitbit and Apple Watch devices, to detect signs of cardiovascular illnesses. They presented their findings at this weeks AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in New Orleans. By analysing the relationship between the heart rate and step counting data recorded by compatible wearables, Cardiogram was able to predict whether the participants had diabetes, with 85 percent accuracy. Alongside diabetes risk, the research, carried out in partnership with the University of California, sought to train the companys DeepHeart neural network to predict high cholesterol, high blood pressure and sleep apnea. The study compared two semi-supervised training methods, sequence learning and heuristic pretraining, and successfully demonstrated that these methods can outperform traditional hand-engineered biomarkers. Existing (and widely used) predictive models rely on very small amounts of positive labels (which represents a human life at risk). However, readily available wearables such as Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Android Wear devices, benefit from trillions of unlabelled data points including rich signals such as resting heart rate and heart rate variation, which correlate with many health conditions. As an individual develops diabetes, their heart rate pattern changes, due to the hearts link with the pancreas, Continue reading >>
Sugar Sense Diabetes App
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Apple Watch's Heart Rate Sensor Can Detect Diabetes, Cardiogram Study Finds
Apple Watch's heart rate sensor can detect diabetes, Cardiogram study finds Another way Apple Watch can save your life. Use commas to separate multiple email addresses The tiny Apple Watches on our wrists have already saved lives . Not only do they keep us more active, they can also detect a variety of heart diseases without needing any additional bands or accessories. But a new study by Cardiogram is taking it one step further. The mobile health data companys deep learning network, DeepHeart, already uses data from the Apple Watch ($429 on Apple.com ) heart rate sensor to detect atrial fibrillation , hypertension, and sleep apnea. Now its adding a new disease to the list: diabetes. While Apple and Google have been rumored to be working on hardware capable of monitoring glucose levels , Cardiograms study used nothing more than machine learning and the Apple Watchs heart rate sensor to detect whether a user has diabetes. The heart rate sensor that you wear already from the Apple Watch may actually be able to detect signs of diabetes, Cardiogram co-founder Brandon Ballinger told Macworld. In the end, the final accuracy was 85 percent, which is pretty high for performing wrist applications." [ Further reading: Everything you need to know about iOS 11 ] The impact on you at home: Apple is selling more watches than ever, and the vast majority of people are using them mainly for their health and fitness benefits. Weve heard numerous stories of how Apple Watchs heart rate sensor has saved people from heart attacks and pulmonary embolisms, and Cardiogram's research on atrial fibrillation last year ended up mirroring Apple's own study in watchOS 4. But diabetes detection ups the ante considerably. If we can start extrapolating the heart-rate data from Apple Watch to detect ailm Continue reading >>
Apple's Non-invasive Glucose Reader For Apple Watch May Be 'years Away'
Apple's non-invasive glucose reader for Apple Watch may be 'years away' Wednesday, December 27, 2017, 06:41 am PT (09:41 am ET) Apple is still developing a non-invasive glucose reader, but the technology might not show up in an Apple Watch for several years, a report said this week. The company is "continuing research," according to the New York Times, which cited two sources familiar with the project. Industry experts consulted by the paper however suggested that Apple and other companies are likely years away from a commercial product. Apple's interest in the technology has been rumored for some time , and is said by Times sources to date back to co-founder Steve Jobs, who in the last months of his life approved a research project because he disliked pricking his finger for blood sugar testing. The CEO was coping with diabetes at the same time as his battle with cancer. The company reportedly considered trying the feature in the first-generation Watch, which shipped in 2015, but it was one of several health technologies the company ditched because it was either unreliable or forced compromises in size or battery life. In its current incarnation the Apple Watch shares many of the same health features as rival devices from Garmin, Polar, Samsung and others, namely step and stand tracking, calorie burn estimates, and continuous heart rate tracking. The company is rumored to be working on adding an EKG monitor , triggered by squeezing the frame of a Watch. Both that and a glucose reader will probably require approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which though fast-tracking may be available could complicate any launch. Continue reading >>
Study Shows That The Apple Watch And Other Wearables Can Detect Diabetes Early On
While the Apple Watch may never be able to non-invasively measure a users glucose levels, an intriguing and massive new study conducted by the health startup Cardiogram and the University of California San Francisco suggests that the device can accurately detect when a wearer has diabetes. The study specifically found that the Apple Watch and other wearables were able to detect the disease in previously diagnosed patients 85% of the time. All told, the study monitored approximately 14,000 Apple Watch and Android Wear owners over the course of many weeks. As for how the testing was done, the researchers explain that they used an avalanche of health sensor data to train a deep neural network by presenting it with samples from people with and without diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, atrial fibrillation, and high cholesterol. Incidentally, Cardiogram calls its AI-based algorithm DeepHeart. Don't Miss: Amazon has a $40 Apple Watch accessory youll wonder how you ever lived without As to how heart rate data is tied into the detection of diabetes, Cardiogram co-founder Johnson Hsieh explains: Your heart is connected with your pancreas via the autonomic nervous system. As people develop the early stages of diabetes, their pattern of heart rate variability shifts. Hsieh further cites a 2015 study wherein researchers discovered that a high resting heart rate and low heart rate variability is capable of predicting when individuals are liable to develop diabetes over a 12-year period. The research here is obviously incredibly important, especially as the number of individuals suffering from diabetes continues to grow. As the study notes, more than 100 million individuals in the U.S. alone either suffer from diabetes or are prediabetic. 1 in 4 of those with diabetes are undiagno Continue reading >>
New Apple Ad Features Dexcom: Here Is Why That Is Important To You
New Apple Ad Features Dexcom: Here Is Why That Is Important to You People living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are understandably excited to hear the words,my daughter was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetesin an Apple ad, but that is just the beginning of why this Apple Watch advertisement should get your heart pumping. The percentage of people with T1D using continuous glucose monitoring technology is still relatively low. The barriers to adoption are multi-variable. Cost, lack of insurance coverage, misunderstanding of what the technology brings to your life and plain just not knowing that it exists are but a few. The truth, however, is that even if you never find your way to a CGM, this quick video, in my opinion, should still make you happy. Heres why. We finally have a device manufacturer in the diabetes world who moved beyond the diabetes world. When Dexcom searched for others whose collaboration might improve their product,they didnt just form a relationship with a little start-up.They formed a relationship with Apple. The mention of Apple Watch integration with Dexcom in this ad, in my opinion, is not random. The mention didnt happen just because someone wrote a letter. It is there on purpose.This is Apple telling us what is important to them and a signal of where they are focusing their efforts when it comes to the health space. The company that put a smartphone into most every hand on the planet and the company that is hugely responsible for the technology that keeps my daughter healthy, they are dating. I think we are all going to like what their future children grow up to be. Im even more excited when I think about the relationship that Dexcom has with Omnipod and the ways that the Apple connection could improve all aspects of the tech that helps to keep Continue reading >>
How The Apple Watch Is Starting To Realize Its Clinical Potential
How the Apple Watch is starting to realize its clinical potential Its unlikely Apple ever meant the Watchs high-quality heart rate monitor to merely count heartbeats. An increasing number of clinical trials are searching for other meaningful health data the Watch can reliably detect. The digital health company Cardiogram believes its algorithms, using data from the Watch, can detect diabetes in people with 85% accuracy. In a test of 14,000 Watch wearers conducted with UCSF, the technology correctly detected 462 diabetics among them, TechCrunch reports . Diabetes is a very costly disease, and 100 million U.S. adults are said to have it, or pre-diabetic conditions. Cardiogram said it earlier used the Apple Watch to detect arrhythmia with 97% accuracy, sleep apnea with 90% accuracy, and hypertension with 82% accuracy. The study is just the latest indication of the Apple Watchs clinical and medical ambitions. AliveCor recently gained FDA approval for its KardiaBand, an Apple Watch band with its own EKG sensor, which works together with the Apple Watchs heart rate sensor detect arrhythmia. Last week, Apple released a beta feature in its Health app that lets users automatically download and view parts of their medical records on their iPhones. This will enable users to transfer clinical data, like cholesterol levels or lists of medications, directly from their doctors to their devices; 12 hospitals, including Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore and Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, will participate in the beta test. Apple and Stanford are currently running a study among a wide number of users to find out how well data collected by the Apple Watch can identify irregular heart rhythms, including those from potentially serious heart conditions such as atrial fibrillation. In its doc Continue reading >>
Dramatic A1c Improvement Among People With Diabetes Using One Drop | Mobile App On Iphone And Apple Watch
"Study after study shows people using One Drop experience incredible outcomes. They eat fewer carbs, become more active, and experience dramatic results. But with the Apple Watch, results are even better," said Dr. Chandra Osborn, Vice President of Health and Behavioral Informatics at One Drop. At the recent Stanford MedX conference, One Drop reported people with type 2 diabetes using the app with a One Drop | Expert coach and an Apple Watch, had an estimated 1.2% A1c improvement in three months [1]. Without the Apple Watch, the estimated A1c improvement is 1% in three months [2]. Using retrospective app-collected data, One Drop, in collaboration with internationally-known scientists, assessed the self-reported A1c change of people using One Drop | Mobile on iPhone and Apple Watch who tracked their A1cs in the app. They also assessed whether app engagement was associated with an A1c change. The latest published results come from 256 people with diabetes who had tracked at least two A1c values in the app (from 2 to 12 months apart), had their diabetes diagnoses verified with medications entered in the app, and had an average blood glucose consistent with their self-reported A1c values. Of the 65 people with type 1 diabetes and 191 people with type 2 diabetes, 23% were female, diagnosed with diabetes for a mean 8.3 years, and tracked an average 2176 self-care activities in the app between A1c values. Self-reported A1c can be as accurate as laboratory A1c [3], and self-reported A1c was significantly associated with 90-day average blood glucose and consistent with cohort studies testing the relationship between blood glucose and laboratory A1c [4]. During a median 4 months, A1c improved by -1.36% or -14.9 mmol/mol (from 8.72% [71.8 mmol/mol] to 7.36% [56.9 mmol/mol]). Using Continue reading >>
Apple Watch Can Detect Diabetes With 85 Percent Accuracy | Digital Trends
Its only been a few months since the Apple Watch began testing the waters as a tried-and-true medical device . But already, the wearable is proving its mettle. As per the latest study from Cardiogram founder Brandon Ballinger, the Apple Watch is capable of detecting diabetes with an 85 percent accuracy rate. There is a caveat to that figure, however it only stands for patients who havepreviouslybeen diagnosed with diabetes already. All the same, the study suggests that the Apple Watch could be a viable healthcare accessory moving forward. The research examined data from 14,000 Apple Watch owners, and determined that 462 had diabetes by using the heart-rate sensor in the watch. How was it able to do so?According to the 2015 Framingham Heart Study , diabetes patients have heart rates that vary from healthy individuals. As such, the Watchs heart-rate sensor could theoretically detect these irregular heart rates, and consequently, identify a diabetes patient. As TechCrunch points out, this is the same sort of sensor other fitness wearables use, which means that this capability likely isnt restricted to the Apple Watch. This is by no means the only disease that wearables may be able to detect. Ballinger previously used the Apple Watch to identify an abnormal heart rhythm with up to a 97 percent accuracy when used in conjunction with Cardiograms AI-based algorithm. The Watch has also been able to identify sleep apnea and hypertension with impressive accuracy rates. And Ballinger wants to see exactly how useful the Apple Watch and other fitness wearables may be in the diagnostic realm he and his team hope to examine a wide range of diseases capable of being sussed out by heart sensors. If further research proves successful, it could be an enormous boon to the health care indu Continue reading >>
